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CDC gives $25 million in bonuses while complaining of budget cuts
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Top officials at the Centers for Disease Control recieved $25 million in bonuses over the last 7 years, giving the lie to the notion that GOP budget cuts at the $6 billion agency are responsible for the Ebola outbreak.
Another $40 million in CDC funding has gone to study silly "health" issues like why are lesbians fat and origami condoms.
Washington Times:
U.S. taxpayers gave $6 billion in salaries and $25 million in bonuses to an elite corps of health care specialists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 2007, according to data compiled by American Transparency’s OpenTheBooks.com, an online portal aggregating 1.3 billion lines of federal, state and local spending. The agency’s head count increased by 23 percent during that time, adding manpower and contributing to higher payrolls despite relatively flat funding.
From 2010 to 2013, all federal wages were frozen because of budgetary constraints, but CDC officials found a way to pay themselves through bonuses, overtime, within-grade increases and promotion pay raises.
For instance, the agency has spent $2,873,440 trying to figure out why lesbians are obese, and $466,642 on why fat girls have a tough time getting dates. Another $2,075,611 was spent encouraging old people to join choirs.
Millions have gone to “text message interventions,” including a study where researchers sent texts to drunks at the bar to try to get them to stop drinking. The project received an additional grant this year, for a total of $674,590.
The NIH is also texting older African Americans with HIV ($372,460), HIV and drug users in rural areas ($693,000), HIV smokers ($763,519), pregnant smokers ($380,145), teen moms ($243,839), and meth addicts ($360,113). Text message interventions to try to get obese people to lose weight have cost $2,707,067.
The NIH’s research on obesity has led to spending $2,101,064 on wearable insoles and buttons that can track a person’s weight, and $374,670 to put on fruit and vegetable puppet shows for preschoolers.
A restaurant intervention to develop new children’s menus cost $275,227, and the NIH spent $430,608 for mother-daughter dancing outreach to fight obesity.
There weren't any cuts. There does need to be. And a bit of holding people responsible for what they do would be nice also.
The obama boot licking ABC (and the AP) has it partially right.
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If these cuts are bad, assigning blame is far more complicated than both sides make it seem, when they blame each other.
The CDC's budget was a robust $6.8 billion in 2010, the last year Democrats controlled Congress. Last year's budget for the CDC: $6.9 billion. And Obama's request for the current year? It's $6.6 billion, a cut of almost $300 million.
That's right: Obama asked for less money than the CDC got last year.
Obama's signature is on each spending bill that has set the budgets for both agencies; in other words, he went along. And Democrats mostly voted for them. Moreover, sequestration - with its blunt budget ax - was an idea that originated in the Obama White House.
in January, the Republican-controlled House actually passed legislation that increased CDC spending for 2014 by $567 million — $300 million more than was requested by President Obama.
President Obama asked for a smaller CDC budget than Republicans.
However, Obama is president, so Democrats are forced to point fingers, make excuses, and lie.
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Counting all sources, the CDC and its sister unit the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ran a budget of $10.791 billion in 2014. The average for the Obama years is $10.823 billion including the stimulus, while the average for George W. Bush ’s second term was $8.721 billion (all-in data are available only as far back as 2003). This year’s CDC budget is a 35.2% increase over a decade ago. What austerity?
According to the National Health Expenditures accounts, total federal and state funding for “public health activity” rose to $74.991 billion in 2012, a 13.7% increase over 2007 and 180.1% over 1993. Over the same periods, Medicare spending alone jumped 32.3% in five years and 281.7% in 20.
in January, the Republican-controlled House actually passed legislation that increased CDC spending for 2014 by $567 million — $300 million more than was requested by President Obama.
Yes they continued to feed the pig despite their promises to get the budget under control.
Government operates without the profit and loss signals required to allocate resources properly, guaranteeing wasteful/inappropriate spending will always exist without penalty.
People need to quit advocating for more funding and dreaming for the right crooks to run it.
Yes they continued to feed the pig despite their promises to get the budget under control.
So what you really saying in your comment you complain about the increased budget, that House Rep. Delivered. ???
The bigger issue here is the actual budget that the CDC proposed and should of been reviewed by outside auditors. Some of the programs that the CDC has sponsored is suspect to say the least. I do agree that the budget process Is flawed and does not reflect reflect cost saving measures .
The big question is who approves of these go nowhere programs? My answer administrators is not looking at the values of their so called programs.
25 Mill in Bonuses, crazy. Does any remember the Gov Agency went to Hawaii?
This is why outside auditors should work with every department in the US Gov, to deliver a cost saving budget that reflects the needs of America.
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