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Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:10 am to Northwestern tiger
That is good news way too much money is wasted through these research grants.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:10 am to Northwestern tiger
I have a well-meaning friend who is a Registered Nurse. My wife and I adore her, but we don't see eye-to-eye, politically. She just posted on FB about these cuts:
I don't quite think she gets it.
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This is devastating. I wish people could understand that our national security and the well-being of our nation is so very much more than borders and immigrants.
I don't quite think she gets it.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:10 am to Loserman
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When they move an worker from one cube to another they charge the government $2500. The work is being performed by people all ready employed by the government to do these tasks. This is not a bean counter costing function either because the moves are done as contract mods at additional expense. The area in which I work had 10 employees moved to another building while they did work on their cubicles and the contract was paid 25000 for the 10 employees being moved and then 25000 when they were moved back 4 days later. The real egregious part was the employees never actually moved to the other building because they couldn't do work in the other building due to their classified work and lack of access. Instead they were set up in a conference room inside the lab where they were. These things are not isolated. It is the way the government works.
Exactly. My former career was as a public school teacher. The amount of waste in public schools is unreal just in paper and ink alone. Start adding in unneeded employees and having 1 on 1 paras for certain students their entire school life and its get outrageous.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:11 am to Loserman
To which your trypical big government idiot would say, "that's only $50,000 down the tube, it's a drop in the bucket". To which I would say, all those drops actually add up to a ton of real money!
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:13 am to TitleistProV1X
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To which your trypical big government idiot would say, "that's only $50,000 down the tube, it's a drop in the bucket". To which I would say, all those drops actually add up to a ton of real money!
When you could tax every person making over a million dollars at year at 100% and it still wouldn't be enough then you know we have a MAJOR spending problem.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:15 am to Northwestern tiger
So funding is provided to find cures by our tax dollars and we still get to pay high prices for that treatment. Awesomeness
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:18 am to redfishfan
"The majority of medical discovery comes from the private sector. This thing called incentive and capitalism makes that happen."
That just isn't true. Most of the biggest breakthroughs happen with NIH funding. Not all, not saying all, but most.
That just isn't true. Most of the biggest breakthroughs happen with NIH funding. Not all, not saying all, but most.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:22 am to GeauxxxTigers23
Because you don't think that money from the NIH supports 350,000 jobs?
It perplexes me that everyone is suddenly cool with "big pharma." I thought yall hated big pharma and they are sitting on the cure for cancer. Take out all the public research dollars and I guess they can keep that cure for cancer in the closet and not worry about it. Also, if they are the ones doing all the research then don't expect drug prices to go down. It will be the opposite.
Then you'll lose a huge portion of research that benefits society but is not profitable. Private sector will never do it.
It perplexes me that everyone is suddenly cool with "big pharma." I thought yall hated big pharma and they are sitting on the cure for cancer. Take out all the public research dollars and I guess they can keep that cure for cancer in the closet and not worry about it. Also, if they are the ones doing all the research then don't expect drug prices to go down. It will be the opposite.
Then you'll lose a huge portion of research that benefits society but is not profitable. Private sector will never do it.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:24 am to Northwestern tiger
quote:Agree.
Now he is slashing Biomedical Research by 20%. Hopefully congress will block this
The CDC OTOH could stand a little scrutiny.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:26 am to Northwestern tiger
Good
People are still unhealthy so they aren't doing a good job
People are still unhealthy so they aren't doing a good job
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:33 am to Northwestern tiger
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Now he is slashing Biomedical Research by 20%. Hopefully congress will block this
If you actually watched the presser on the budget you would know this is a cut to eliminate waste. Mulkavey used the example of in one city, might've been D.C. even, there are 7 different buildings owned and operated by the NIH with overlapping, duplicated, functions. Eliminate 3 of the locations by consolidating and save almost the entire 20% right there.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:35 am to el Gaucho
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Good
People are still unhealthy so they aren't doing a good job
lol strong
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:43 am to Sidicous
If eliminating 3 NIH buildings and not reducing the amount of money given to research grants equals 6 billion then that's great. Go for it.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 12:00 pm to Sidicous
quote:Whereas in the last administration different buildings owned and operated by the government, had overlapping duplicitous functions.
If you actually watched the presser on the budget you would know this is a cut to eliminate waste. Mulkavey used the example of in one city, might've been D.C. even, there are 7 different buildings owned and operated by the NIH with overlapping, duplicated, functions.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 12:02 pm to 90proofprofessional
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oh NIH does vaccines? i thought he just posted here
Vaccines are fake!
Posted on 3/17/17 at 12:05 pm to VoxDawg
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I don't quite think she gets it.
I don't think you get it.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 12:07 pm to NC_Tigah
Here is the thing, if your agency is so important then you have a chance to present the case to congress. Trumps budget won't pass because the McCains won't allow it to. All this bellyaching does is reinforce just how bloated these Agencies really have become.
Drain the swamp
Drain the swamp
Posted on 3/17/17 at 12:10 pm to Northwestern tiger
Funny you don't realize that there's easily 20% waste in all govt bureaucracies.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 12:15 pm to Northwestern tiger
Where does it say the 20% come off of research? Trim the fat.
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