But Peg, the truth is that the GOP INCREASED funding to the CDC, that's why they had money for this stuff.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/10/15/cdc-nih-cry-over-money-press-ignores-their-waste....................................................snip.............................................................................
a $702,558 grant for the study of the impact of televisions and gas generators on villages in Vietnam.
$175,587 to the University of Kentucky to study the impact of cocaine on the sex drive of Japanese quail.
$55,382 to study hookah smoking in Jordan.
$592,527 to study why chimpanzees throw objects.
A year ago there were news reports about a $509,840 grant from NIH to pay for a study that will send text messages in “gay lingo” to meth-heads.
- See more at:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/10/15/cdc-nih-cry-over-money-press-ignores-their-waste#sthash.zKaMltlj.dpuf Based on the plethora of other wasteful research projects NIH spent grant money on, an Ebola vaccine certainly did not appear to be a high priority. Forbes published a sampling of 18 wasteful programs paid for by NIH as of October, 2012. This research ranged from a study on “Massage in Rabbits” (costing taxpayers $386,000) to numerous studies exploring the effects of meditation (costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each).
Forbes also reported that NIH spent $31 million on a decade-long study of an experimental heart therapy, despite “the probability of the study yielding usable – let alone clinically important — results approached zero.”
Finally, here are some examples cited by Eric Boehm at Watchdog.org:
The CDC, for example, was busted in 2007 by Oklahoma Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn’s office for a litany of questionable spending decisions.
... Though the agency spent more than $2.6 billion on grants for HIV and AIDS research over five years, the CDC acknowledged that many of those grants “have no objectives” or were otherwise useless. They kept funding them anyway.
“Many times the answer is to spend more money instead of redirecting the money or eliminating the waste,” Thomas Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonprofit that tracks poor spending decisions by Congress and the federal bureaucracy, told Watchdog.org this week. “Programs that are completely ineffective might get cut by a few percentage points or something, but the wasteful spending still exists.”
The agency has received more than $3 billion from a new research fund created by the Affordable Care Act, but has spent only $180 million of that bounty on researching dangerous diseases.
Instead, it has budgeted millions of dollars each year for community grants aimed at convincing Americans to make smart choices about their health — essentially, taxpayer-funded advertising telling you to put down that giant soda and eat more salad.
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But the fact is, money is not the current issue.
In fact Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook just donated $25 million for research.
The issue is that the Vaccine they had was only in small quantity for testing, these were used up treating the first 2 missionaries They announced a couple weeks after that that the vaccine had BEGUN FDA trials, that is primarily paperwork that can be done while more vaccine is being made for a testing process that can take more than 2 years.
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