Opinion #1
I warned you, here is one of the several radical views I'm known to spout off from time to time: the President doesn't think I need to be cured.
Well, not me personally (I think), but myself and millions of fellow sufferers. How do I know this? Because he wants to cut funding for the National Cancer Institute by $40 million, or, to put it in technical terms, about 8 seconds in Iraq.
Now now, I know HE doesn't want to do this, policy is all about good stewardship of American tax dollars, and we certainly don't want to be wasteful or irresponsible, and if those high rollers at the NCI are using $100 bills to light their bunsen burners, then to hell with their funding. We're at war, we're facing the highest deficit ever, spending cuts are inevitable.
But, in fact, that's all crap. The everyday advancements made by NCI are astounding -- these geniuses are literally on their way to CURING CANCER. And not just for me, I have pathetic cancer, my cancer will be no problem in 6 months. But, children with leukemia? Mothers with breast cancer? Gone.
Of course, at that point we'll face another catastrophe figuring out how to pay for all these people, but in the meantime, we are saying we should make less progress curing cancer, less progress on international HIV/AIDS, heart disease, premature birth, etc. because taxes are (were?) too high.
Awesome, I love that attitude. But then again I have a tumor in my head.
Well, not me personally (I think), but myself and millions of fellow sufferers. How do I know this? Because he wants to cut funding for the National Cancer Institute by $40 million, or, to put it in technical terms, about 8 seconds in Iraq.
Now now, I know HE doesn't want to do this, policy is all about good stewardship of American tax dollars, and we certainly don't want to be wasteful or irresponsible, and if those high rollers at the NCI are using $100 bills to light their bunsen burners, then to hell with their funding. We're at war, we're facing the highest deficit ever, spending cuts are inevitable.
But, in fact, that's all crap. The everyday advancements made by NCI are astounding -- these geniuses are literally on their way to CURING CANCER. And not just for me, I have pathetic cancer, my cancer will be no problem in 6 months. But, children with leukemia? Mothers with breast cancer? Gone.
Of course, at that point we'll face another catastrophe figuring out how to pay for all these people, but in the meantime, we are saying we should make less progress curing cancer, less progress on international HIV/AIDS, heart disease, premature birth, etc. because taxes are (were?) too high.
Awesome, I love that attitude. But then again I have a tumor in my head.
posted by Tim at
11:14 PM
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