CBS reports on CDC ~ Gypsies, Tramps and thieves - Shocking!!

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I'm bumped up the cut and paste so more people could see thenumbers. It's just criminal.Sample CDC expenditures from Senate report:Conferences featuring PROSTITUTES? - $45 million.Whistles, trinkets and mousepads?- $128 thousand.Transgender beauty pageant? Priceless.Alliance For Human Research ProtectionPromoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountabilityhttp://www.ahrp.org and http://ahrp.blogspot.comFYIAmerica's healthcare oversight agencies are running amok wastingtaxpayer money while undermining the public health instead ofprotecting it.Below are the highlights of the 115 page review issued by The UnitedStates Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management,Government Information and International Security, Minority Office ,Under the Direction of Senator Tom Coburn, Ranking Minority Member,June 2007.U.S federal healthcare oversight agency, it appears are being run byreckless and irresponsible administrators. Previous reportsconfirmed this sorry state of affairs at the Food an DrugAdministration--which is largely under the control of thepharmaceutical industry that it is mandated to oversee; at theNational Institutes of Health financial conflicts of interest andscientist' double dipping has undermined the integrity of scienceand the safety of human subjects; the Environmental ProtectionAgency is headed by an administrator who would conduct a pesticideexperiment on African American toddlers were it not forthe public outcry and the intervention of several senatorshttp://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/09/07.php andhttp://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/11/30.phpThe latest indictment is contained in an extraordinary report justpublished by the US Senate assessing the performance of the Centersfor Disease Control: "CDC Off-Center: A review of how an agencytasked with fighting and preventing disease has spent hundreds ofmillions of tax dollars for failed prevention efforts, internationaljunkets, and lavish facilities, but cannot demonstrate it iscontrolling disease."CDC spokesman: "We strive day in and day out to fulfill ourcommitment to the American taxpayer."The report, CDC Off-Center is found at: found at:http://coburn.senate.gov/ffm/index.cfm?FuseAction=OversightAction.Home & ContentRecord_id=bf7e1789-802a-23ad-42e1-57d542e77901Dr. Coburn indicated that this is the First in a Series of OversightReports on Federal Agencies.

 

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