Posted on 05/17/2016 1:34:12 PM PDT by ColdOne
The Senate voted decisively on Tuesday in favor of a bipartisan $1.1 billion measure to combat the Zika virus this year and next, cutting back President Barack Obama's request but offering significantly more money to fight Zika than would House GOP conservatives.
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The 68-29 vote propelled the measure over a filibuster and sets the stage to add the Zika funding to an unrelated spending bill. It comes three months after Obama requested $1.9 billion to battle the virus, which can cause severe birth defects.
"We see the people of this country facing a public health threat," said Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who supports the full Obama request. "Our response should be `Let's deal with it the way that medical experts are saying we need to deal with it."'
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“A billion here, a billion there...”
No idea where this money is going.
If they spent that F******ING billion actually ENFORCING the G*****ED BORDER. It would have MORE EFFECT on STOPPING ZIKA!!!!!
right now if the Norks attacked DC with a “Satellite”, I am not sure how I feel.... Every time i hear a story like this, I find it harder it is to feel sad should the above scenario play out.
Bring back DDT sprayers for 5% of the cost.
No idea where this money is going.
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I can take a pretty good guess of where it will not be going.
“We see the people of this country facing a public health threat,” said Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida
And it is a DIRECT Result from Me and My buddies in Congress FLOODING the Country with 3rd world people from god knows wear with all their diseases and filthy habits.
When I got my Wife her Green Card, MEDICAL EVALUATIONS were MANDATORY, any disease and you got shipped back home!!!
Took the words right out of my mouth, or off my keyboard....
It’s like they think they can just conjure up an endless supply of money, oh wait, maybe that’s why we’re $20 trillion in debt!
Ah, now we see the real reason behind all the Zika fear porn.
Fear is extremely profitable isn’t it.
If pregnant just slather any of a number of (mosquito repellents) on....shouldn't take a Billion dollars....who on earth approved that?
“Fear is extremely profitable isn’t it.”
How the BILLIONAIRES make the middle class pay for illegal immigration.
Every year it is some new virus we need to fight and every year it turns out to be a big nothing burger with huge piles of money thrown at it.
We are being fleeced and we love it!!!!
Follow the money.
The Sky Is Falling yet again and it, as usual, will be very expensive to taxpayers and highly remunerative to favored industries and lobbyists.
That’ll fix it for sure.
An investment in DDT would be appropriate here. The government doesn’t have to do anything but unban it. The market will take care of the rest.
I don’t think a few tanks of DDT and spray trucks cost a billion dollars.
$1.1 BILLION! Yet from what I’ve read only ONE person in the USA has died as a result of zika. What the hell? How about that money go towards something useful. Like maybe give it back to those who paid it in with their taxes!
The Fed is worse than a drunken sailor. At least a drunken sailor spends their own money. The Fed has no money other than what they TAKE from tax payers.
How many ‘flu’ types has the government thrown $billions at in the last 20 years?
Avian?
West Nile?
Swine?
It seems rather strange that most never heard of Zika until about a year ago, even thought it has been around since about 1947.
Why all of the sudden does it seem to be spreading and needing $billions from governments?
We need to follow the money and find out whether all of these allocations really go where they are supposed to or whether they end up in cronies’ pockets.
“Every year it is some new virus we need to fight and every year it turns out to be a big nothing burger with huge piles of money thrown at it.”
Just off the top of my head:
Global Cooling/Warming/Climat Change.
Mad Cow Disease
SARS (bird virus)
West Nile Virus
Ebola
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