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Seriously? You guys are pissed about $360,000 a year spent on drug research?
Every post a facepalm...
Seriously? You guys are pissed about $360,000 a year spent on drug research?
All they had to do was go to a few Grateful Dead concerts instead of wasting our cash on this monkey business.
If private companies want to do this and get the OK, fine with me, but not with our cash.
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It is not government's job to do this. Period. Seriously.
Capiche?
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They're most likely looking at short term and long term effects of various drug use. We do need to cut back on unnecessary spending, but hit pieces like this I rarely listen to because people put up a dollar amount and never actually go into the research being done. If you want to evaluate whether or not it is valid research, you have to have more than a little hit piece. And if we're bitching about government spending, ending our aggressive, interventionist wars will save a hell of a lot more than cutting out science research will ever do.
It is not government's job to do this. Period. Seriously.
Capiche?
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They are looking at drug interventions! They are looking into treatment! Why can't anyone go read the studies for themselves? Is everyone such a ****ing sheep that they have to be told what the study does by an article with a clear agenda to distort and make fun of the work?
Honest to god, I'm sick and tired of these kinds of idiotic threads that serve no purpose but for someone to post a partisan thread from a partisan source and make a partisan argument without ever actually going and looking into it themselves.
I was just saying that we should look into it first before you decide to cut anything. Fact of the matter is the government and our society at large has great interest in scientific research, from base science to medicine to various forms of engineering. We're a technological not industrial economy now and to support that you must have a constant flux of science. There are a lot of science hit pieces out there now saying "they spent a million dollars to study bears...OMGWTFBBQ!!!!one!one!!!!!!" But the people spouting out about a million here or a million there tend to have no training in scientific research nor do they investigate the purpose and means of the investigation. A million doesn't even show up on the debt, you have to hit bigger things. Maybe instead of bitching about a million on science research, they should bitch about the TRILLIONS on wars, the BILLIONS on subsidies to industries like the oil industry or look at ways to clear up bureaucracy inefficiencies in necessary departments as well as scaling back the government in appropriate places.
You hit the point on the head.
How idiotic is it to support policy that costs hundreds of millions of dollars to incarcerate drug addicts but then throw a fricken hissyfit over $360,000 a year in research for substance abuse treatment that could yield results which save millions upon millions?
And these have the ****ing gull to call themselves "fiscal conservatives". :roll:
You won't find fiscal conservatives in the Republocrats. Those who call themselves such merely mean that they want to cut all the programs they don't agree with, but are more than happy to expand the size, scope, and intervention of government in other areas that suit their needs.
Indeed. This is a country of ****ing mindless sheep that run to their partisan shepherds to be told what to think. This thread is a perfect example of how little thought people actually give to what they are told. Absolutely pathetic.
It's easier to echo what Fox News or MSNBC tells you to echo than to do the research for yourself. I mean, that's work.
All my posts, a facepalm...
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It's not the government's job to find ways to bring down government costs and increase the welfare of the people? Are you serious?
This is what you get when you only read news from conservative new sources. It's rots your brain.
You are a Libertarian? I think not, for your mind seems a wee bit too narrow. Why not try the book linked in my signature line and get back to me later.
:lamo :lamo :lamo
My mind is open. I was once a Commi Lib... now cured, I seek to assist others escape from the philosophy of the ridiculous.
Are you frustrated because youd love to dish hate on government research and waste but can't because all the hackery has already been blown out of the water?
Open in one direction?