Trump moves $260M from cancer research, HIV/AIDS and other programs to pay for illegal immigrants...

[Thepaintbucket]

Lol really guys. am I reading this right? You don't think slowing the spread of aids world wide isn't at least a national security issue? Some of you guys are something else.

 

[The Big Bang]

Lol really guys. I am reading this right? You don't think slowing the spread of aids world wide isn't at least a national security issue? Some of you guys are something else.

I really don't know why I continue to let myself shake my head in shame that some people here can be so...sad.

Seriously, what are we doing here folks?

Trump never should have ordered the families to be separated, but, he did...and now it's costing Americans money and resources.

 

[FortieSicks]

Trump single-handedly made those families be separated WITHOUT a plan to actually deal with the ramifications...

Also try to increase the font size and using the word 'literally'. That convinces most people.

 

[The Big Bang]

Also try to increase the font size and using the word 'literally'. That convinces most people.

Yup.

Totally.

 

[NoDak]

We aren't on the hook for HIV/AIDS treatment, but the US wipes the floor with the rest of the world in terms of research output. The NIH - a public institution - is the foremost biomedical research body on the planet with some 86 Nobel Prizes associated (predominantly in physiology, medicine and chemistry) through their intramural and extramural programs.

The enterprise drives discovery and advances our understanding of human health and disease, plays significant developmental and economic roles, fuels training for future generations of physicians and scientists and creates new technologies and jobs.

Why the fuck would anyone be against funding that?

@NoDak

Because it's not our problem. And it's not free.
We have to start taking care of our own for a change.
Plus, have any of you ever considered that maybe Nature is simply doing her thing and trying to control the global population?

Our "problem". You do realize I was talking about scientific research and technological innovation on the whole, right? And nah, HIV/AIDS is getting BTFO.

Yeah, it's just more important to fund private military contractors than to prevent the spread of deadly diseases in other nations in which people travel to and from our nation. Ebola virus research? The fuck would we need that shit for? Not like it's communicable!! Those aid workers who brought the disease back? Fuck em, Lockheed needs a contract and Bechtel needs subsidies!!

Your posts demonstrate a devastating lack of foresight, or even a perspective beyond your own. In short, you demonstrate you are an intellectually sheltered rube.

I'd rather be funding our FFRDCs in that case tbh. We need more investment in quantum information systems, artificial intelligence, robotics and emergent bio-technologies, for both defense and non-defense related applications. That's the next generation of security and warfare.

 

[FortieSicks]

Yup.

Totally.

You could have at least liked my post...

Just here to get informed about both sides of the story btw. No dog in this fight

 

[NoDak]

You could have at least liked my post...

Just here to get informed about both sides of the story btw. No dog in this fight

I'll like your post, you're starving man.

 

[NoDak]

The Top 20 high-quality science producing countries in the world (12-month rolling index). Lmfao @ Norway at No. 27 @Son of Jamin, absolutely abysmal. Innovate: Nothing. The country is so spoiled that they simply don't have to, nor does the drive even exist among the younglings but they'll need the talent down the road... eventually.

 

[Son of Jamin]

The Top 20 high-quality science producing countries in the world (12-month rolling index). Lmfao @ Norway at No. 27 @Son of Jamin, absolutely abysmal. Innovate: Nothing. The country is so spoiled that they simply don't have to, nor does the drive even exist among the younglings but they'll need the talent down the road... eventually.

Maybe there was something to what a prominent socialist politician in Sweden said about Norway, the last Soviet state...

 

[NoDak]

Maybe there was something to what a prominent socialist politician in Sweden said about Norway, the last Soviet state...

And that was what, the late 90s? There's been a profound deterioration in work ethic over the last generation in particular and it's beginning to draw the ire of politicians, economists and industrialists.

 

[NoDak]

Under normal circumstances, one might be able to forgive the lack of high quality output in more raw terms given the small population size and that would be logical. But no, R&D intensity as a percentage of GDP is also incredibly piss-poor.

 

[waiguoren]

And you seem to be ignoring this part

I'm ignoring it because I don't think it's accurate. "In large part" implies that administration policies are a major factor driving the increased volume. I believe the most important factor is the fact that we are undergoing a migrant surge of the scale we haven't seen since 2014.

 

[Hit-N-Run]

Country is 21.5 trillion in debt, and we have people that think funding AIDS prevention around the globe is a good idea. That money has got to be borrowed. And (in theory) paid off.
Unfuckingreal.

But Using that money to jail children is a good use of it

Got it

 

[Islam Imamate]

I'm ignoring it because I don't think it's accurate. "In large part" implies that administration policies are a major factor driving the increased volume. I believe the most important factor is the fact that we are undergoing a migrant surge of the scale we haven't seen since 2014.

What are you basing that on?

 

[waiguoren]

What are you basing that on?

I'm basing it on the CBP apprehension data for unaccompanied alien children (UAC) and family units (FMUA), here.

If we scroll down to the bottom of that page, we can find the monthly apprehension data for FY 2018. By my tally, we had 138,267 apprehensions of UAC+FMUA in FY 2018.

Comparing that tally to the two charts below, FY2018 actually beat out FY2014, which was the year of the last migrant surge, the year from which the "kids in cages" photos originiate.

We weren't equipped to handle these surges in 2014, and we might still be falling short today. Making this about Trump seems to be a big stretch. The Trump administration has expanded the number and the capacity of facilities to hold UAC and FMU.

 

[glenwo2]

Yup.

Totally.

@FortieSicks

As in you two are Totally clueless?

I agree.

 

[The Big Bang]

You could have at least liked my post...

Just here to get informed about both sides of the story btw. No dog in this fight

There bub.

I threw you a like bone.

Have a blast.

 

[FortieSicks]

@FortieSicks

As in you two are Totally clueless?

I agree.

Who are you?

 

[Pessimystic]

@Hit-N-Run
I'd rather they just toss them back, honestly. But, you gotta do something with them barring that, dont we?
Or are you suggesting that we detain them with the adults?
Do you think that there is a reason we don't put juveniles in with adults when detaining them? Why would that be?

 

[Plissken]

A chess move trying to get the sick mad at illegal aliens?