What you hear is not what you get

what we have here is a failure to communicate. what i hear is nothing but lies. what does it matter if money for vaccinations for the purpose of stopping a flu epidemic is going to provide jobs? Why would someone be against preventing the flu? I would say that it is pure elephant garbage to hold up a stimulus package that is necessary to get our economy back on track but it is elephants doing it this time; it could be donkeys doing it next time. If they want to eliminate the funding for flu vaccinations it is probably because some drug company hasn't figured out an angle to make enough money from it yet and their congressional flunkies are just following orders and taking it off the board. Don't believe for a second it is because they think it is spending unnecessarily or it won't be funded sometime down the road when the drug companies can make more out of the program. You would think with 9 billion dollars there would be enough for everyone to make a small, no make that large fortune on. But the greedy elephants want more for their investment bankers and their own offshore accounts. Cynical? maybe. Why would Senator Susan Collins go on national TV and say that flu vaccinations shouldn't be in the stimulus package just 1 week after Chairman of the senate committee for Aging, Herb Kohl, expanded the package to include 800 million dollars for it; note Sen Collins is also on the same senate committee. You might remember back in 2001 Bayer came to the American people's rescue and provided Cipro during the anthrax scare at a reduced price ($1.77 reduced to $.95 per pill).What you may not know is that Bayer was making the pill for .20. & it was paying at least 3 competitor companies $200 million to keep generic alternatives off the market. We have HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to thank for pushing this great deal between government and private enterprise. so, what about the Honorable Ms. Collins? why is she really going after flu vaccinations now that she is on the very powerful senate appropriations committee that has oversight & review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009? Lets wait and see. She received $98K from commercial banks for her 2008 senate campaign and $71.5K from pharmaceutical manufacturing companies. GlaxoSmithKline is one of the world leaders in flu vaccination development and production. GSK just bought IDBiomedical. Together, they represent 1/3 of all flu vaccine manufacturing in the world. GSK spends over $1 Million giving to congressional campaigns - they cover almost everyone. Collins received $10K this year. I guess we'll just have to wait to find out how they profit by this delay in funding.
There is so much going on now. I'll be back soon.