Posted on 01/13/2016 9:08:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Forty-five years ago, the U..S landed a man on the Moon and brought him home safely. The effort cost, in today's dollars, around $135 billion spent over ten years.
Ever since then, whenever government wants to spend a lot of money solving a problem, the moon program is cited as an example that we can do anything we put our minds – and dollars – to.
Last night, the president invoked the Moon landing to announce his initiative to cure cancer – "once and for all." But someone should have whispered into the president's ear that the idea we can eradicate all cancer is a myth and that despite the government spending more than $200 billion on cancer research since the 1970s, the rate of cancer deaths overall has not fallen in 50 years.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged to undertake a historic push to develop a cure for cancer, tapping Vice President Joe Biden to lead the effort.
Obama, in the last State of the Union address of his presidency, said America must use its spirit of innovation to help tackle the challenge of cancer.
"For the loved ones we've all lost, for the family we can still save, let's make America the country that cures cancer once and for all," Obama said.
As Biden smiled from his seat behind the president, Obama said he would put the vice president in charge of "mission control" for the effort.
Biden, who lost his 46-year old son to brain cancer last year, received a standing ovation from lawmakers when Obama made the announcement.
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The false prophet speaks.
Yeah....he does it all...or so he says.
You can keep your doctor. You can keep your provider. His real job in turns ng America into a Marxist paradise where the government provides you with everything.....which means you are now a poor third world peon.
That was the most insane statement of the whole thing.
More money does not equal medical miracle advancements.
Ask Jerry Lewis. Years of telethons with money pouring in and Muscular Dystrophy is unconquered.
Actually, in thinking of this...this is another money pit he’s going to try putting us into.
Did the egomaniac say he would get in the lab and develop the cancer cure if he could. It is always about him.
War on:
Islam - fail
Drugs - fail
Cancer - fail
Gangs - fail
Terrorism- fail
Guns - fail
Of course! In Zognuts’ world, cancer looms as a far more serious threat than ISIS/ISIL.
Obama is the cancer.
Obama is going to be ordering aborted baby genetic experimentation.
look....squirrel!
America’s “cancer” will hopefully be cured in January 2017.
And then Christopher Reeve will be able to walk.......oh wait.....scratch that.
Hey, didn’t you know the ocean levels are dropping? /sar
Now that’s he’s done lowering the seas and healing the planet, he has some extra time on his hands.
So now he can either part the sea and walk through it, or sing a few bars of kumbaya and walk on it.
Hucksterism for Hillary.
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