A story on ABC News last night infuriated me.
The Bush Administration has, three years in a row, CUT the budget for cancer treatment clinical trials. These are trials where new and innovative cancer treatments are tried. In some cases, these trials are the last hope some cancer patients have because all other modes of treatments have been tried and failed.
The budget for these trials was $160 million originally and now has been whittled down to $130 million which means some trials just have to be abandoned.
Why is Bush cutting the funds supporting these trials? Well, it is obvious that he has to fund the war on Iraq somehow.
I want you to think about that while you ponder the latest report out of a Washington agency responsible for tracking our tax dollars and how they are spent. The report said that up to $10 BILLION dollars sent to Iraq are UNNACOUNTED for.
Now how does that make you feel?
The Bush Administration has, three years in a row, CUT the budget for cancer treatment clinical trials. These are trials where new and innovative cancer treatments are tried. In some cases, these trials are the last hope some cancer patients have because all other modes of treatments have been tried and failed.
The budget for these trials was $160 million originally and now has been whittled down to $130 million which means some trials just have to be abandoned.
Why is Bush cutting the funds supporting these trials? Well, it is obvious that he has to fund the war on Iraq somehow.
I want you to think about that while you ponder the latest report out of a Washington agency responsible for tracking our tax dollars and how they are spent. The report said that up to $10 BILLION dollars sent to Iraq are UNNACOUNTED for.
Now how does that make you feel?
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