The GOP Caused The Ebola Outbreak?

Sequestration responsible for slowing the increase in the federal government’s massive deficit spending remains the leftist bogeyman

Canada Free Press

Arnold Ahlert 

As the American public has begun to grasp the massive ineptitude behind the Obama administration’s response to Ebola, a leftist non-profit, the Agenda Project Action Fund (APAF), has sprung to the rescue. An ad campaign entitled “Republican Cuts Kill” features several prominent Republicans, and implies that budget cuts to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) are responsible for the current Ebola outbreak—all over the world.

“Like rabid dogs in a butcher shop, Republicans have indiscriminately shredded everything in their path, including critical programs that could have dealt with the Ebola crisis before it reached our country,” Erica Payne, founder and president of APAF told supporters in an email.

Unfortunately for the American left, research compiled at the twitter feed of CounterMoonbat illuminates a few of those “critical programs” in which the NIH and CDC involved themselves. They include $325,525 for a study showing “wives would be happier if they could calm down faster” during marital spats, $386,000 to study rabbit massage, $939,771 on “why fruit flies fall in love” and $666,905 to study mood relationships with those who watch Seinfeld reruns. Another $350,000 studied the relationship between golfers and their imagination, $702,000 was spent studying the impact of TV’s and gas generators in Vietnam, $150,000 went to China “to learn more about acupuncture” and $423,000 was used to determine why men “don’t like to wear condoms.”

That’s the small stuff. The NIH has a whopping $90 million to fund various health projects in China, including $17 million to learn “whether 420 prostitutes and 241 of their clients were willing to use ‘microbicides’ during sexual activity to combat sexually transmitted diseases.”

Apparently such absurdities were not enough to derail the leftist attempt to demonize Republicans. In a shameless attempt to maintain this effort, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins told the Huffington Post last Sunday an Ebola vaccine “likely” would have been available, were it not for budget cuts. “Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready.”

What “slide” is that? Between 2004 and 2013, the NIH’s budget increased by more than a billion dollars, from $28.03 billion to $29.31 billion. One might be more correctly left to wonder if diverting funds from vaccine research to support the aforementioned absurdities—or a $1.5 million study of why most lesbians are obese, or the $2.5 millionspent making sure Chinese prostitutes drink less while working—might have made the difference.

As for what the CDC “used to have” they have put out two numbers. Their 2010 budget was $6.467 billion, and their 2014 budget was ostensibly $5.882 billion. What they fail to mention is that between 2001 and 2010 their budget tripled.Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindalilluminates the CDC’s equally warped priorities in response to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s contention that spending reductions mandated by sequestration has robbed the CDC of resources “they used to have” and hurt their response to Ebola. Jindal explains that of the $3 billion the CDC received over the last five years from the Prevention and Public Health Fund created to appropriate money for ObamaCare, “only 6 percent—$180 million—of that $3 billion went toward building epidemiology and laboratory capacity.” By contrast, $517.3 million went to a community transformation program that funds support for local farmers and grocery stores, as well as improvements in streetlights and sidewalks, making it easier for people to walk and ride bikes.

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