another benefit of tax cuts for the rich

so while everybody is freaking out over some super-tuberculosis, the cdc is scrambling to deal with any crisis---why? because bush has consistently cut funding to the cdc, like everything else in federal govt except for the army and enforcement of the police state here at home.

– 2002: Proposed a $174 million cut.
– 2003: Proposed a $1 billion cut, with no new funding for preventive health divisions working on TB.
– 2004: Proposed an increase of “less than 1 per cent.”
– 2005: Proposed a $263 million cut, while simultaneously proposing a $270 million increase in abstinence education.
– 2006: Proposed a $500 million cut which would have slashed grants to state and local health departments like the Fulton County Health and Wellness Department involved in this week’s TB-scare.
-2007: Proposed a $179 million cut, in addition to unspecified plans for more CDC “savings.” –
2008: Proposed a $37 million cut, including “massive funding cuts in proven health protection programs

but hundreds of millions for useless abstinence-only sex education programs---and few million for aids in africa while refusing to fund condom distribution----