How the CDC spends your money

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Sharon

Here is an article that I received lately:

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How the CDC spends billions of tax dollars

Did you know that as a U.S. taxpayer you have helped fund a

transgender beauty pageant? That is just one on a long list of

bloated expenses by the tax-funded Centers for Disease Control

(CDC).

CDC director Dr. Gerberding recently told the U.S. Senate that

her agency needed an additional billion dollars. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-

Okla.) decided to see how the CDC had spent its last $10 billion.

What he found will make you sick.

The CDC has wasted millions of taxpayer dollars during the past few

years on everything from vegetable statues to zero gravity chairs.

Sen. Coburn shows in his report, " CDC Off Center, " that the CDC has

spent millions on lavish facilities, questionable conferences, and

new offices in the home states of committee members who oversee its

funding.

The CDC used syphilis prevention funds to host a " safe sex " event

with a porn star.

It spent $45 million for conferences, including some that featured

prostitutes and beach parties.

On the HIV/AIDS front, one grantee hosted a " bar night " with

instructions on " how to throw a good party with lots of alcohol. "

Sen. Coburn reports that the CDC spent enough money on trips for

employees to international AIDS conferences to underwrite drugs that

would have prevented mother-to-child AIDS transmission in over

115,000 babies.

But, instead of making good use of the billions the CDC gets, Dr.

Gerberding says she needs an additional billion dollars to operate.

If Dr. Gerberding wants to keep the " safe sex " events with a porn

star, international conferences featuring prostitutes and beach

parties, and a bar night teaching how to throw a good party with

lots of alcohol, let her get it from the millions wasted by the CDC.

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