Posted on 06/23/2007 12:50:45 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
The next time you are feeling under the weather – perhaps home sick in bed and looking for a way to pass the time – you may want to read through the new 115-page Senate report on the outrageous and wasteful spending practices of the taxpayer-funded Centers for Disease Control, or CDC. On second thought, what you read in this report just might make you feel worse.
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... the just released Senate subcommittee report "CDC Off Center."
For an indication of what the investigative team found, you need look no further than the report subtitle: "A review of how an agency tasked with fighting and preventing disease has spent hundreds of millions of tax dollars for failed prevention efforts, international junkets and lavish facilities, but cannot demonstrate it is controlling disease."
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Here are a few examples of outlandish CDC spending revealed in the report:
Construction of a lavish new $106 million visitor center in Atlanta – the 202,000 square foot Thomas R. Harkin Global Communications Center, including a 70 by 25 foot video wall of plasma television screens and a $20 million TV studio. The previous visitor center was built in 1996.
A new $109 million 325,000 square foot Arlen Specter Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center, also in Atlanta, including $9.8 million in office furniture.
A state-of-the-art "Lifestyle Facility" fitness center at the CDC's Atlanta campus with free access for employees to enjoy such attributes as "zero-gravity" chairs with a mood-enhancing light show, which one employee called "very soothing," plus two "quiet rooms" and two "dry-heat saunas."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Meanwhile, thousands of illegals cross our borders with infectious diseases.
Don’t suppose the CDC is on that one - the border isn’t a vacation destination.
The Yum Yum Tree of Graft rears it’s ugly head.
This is a joke, right? There ought to be a law against naming things after people who are still serving in Congress... and after they are dead would be even better.
What is the point of voting Republican?
A billion here, a billion there adds up to real money.
Heck, they will just print more.
It's free right?
As I've postulated in other posts, the two parties in DC are actually the very large Federal Government Party and the very small Constitutional Republic Party. Many Republicans get elected by paying lip service to the ideals of the Constitutional Republic Party, but in practice they belong to the Federal Government party. "Republican/Democrat" is just a puppet show - the Tom Tancredo Right and the Dennis Kucinich Left merely entertaining diversions. Lott, Graham, McCain, Kennedy, Durbin, Schumer, et al all belong to the same party.
I again have to credit the FReeper (whose name I've forgotten) who came up with the saying: "If voting could change anything, they wouldn't let us do it."
I've heard this many times but can't seem to find the actual proof. Can you come up with some sort of documentation?
In 2003, taxpayers shelled out $300,000 for a conference in New Orleans that featured a workshop on how to defund abstinence education and a sexually graphic "entertainment" segment denigrating the vice president of the United States.
And several other things equally as bad.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56321
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