The Harris County Republican Executive Committee voted unanimously to oppose Proposition 15 which would provide $3 Billion for research into cancer. Breast cancer. Brain cancer. Thyroid cancer. Pancreatic cancer. To name a few, I am personally familiar with.
Uh....right. Sure. Whatever you say. This is just another cold blooded, heartless, vote by the out of touch members of the republican party. Only when cancer affects their father, mother, or member of their family, do they truly understand the importance of research and prevention.The Harris County Republican Party's executive committee recently voted unanimously in opposition to Proposition 15, despite the cancer initiative's bipartisan support in Austin.
"By this stance, we in no way are implying or should it be construed that we are against solving cancer," said Ron Brunner, precinct chairman for the Greenway Plaza area, who raised the motion.
It is so like the Harris County GOP who advocated the clubbing of young, disadvantage children trying to get covered under the SCHIP program, while claiming they are "compassionate conservatives" much like Osama Bin Laden claims to be a "liberator of people".
The Harris County GOP executive committee members cant be nothing less than a bunch of cold hearted whatevers. (on edit)
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1) I wasn't there -- due to a medical issue in the family.
2) You seem to ignore the question -- is funding medical research an appropriate use of state tax dollars?
I was wondering on your take on this.
That is $3 Billion for research HERE in Texas. $3 Billion for jobs that would do something good.
Did the GOP endorse the $250Million for the port of houston?
And it was a UNANIMOUS vote!
If I rob a bank and use the money to fund a worthwhile cancer research project, does that make robbing the bank OK?
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is a component of The University of Texas System, and gifts are deductible on federal tax returns (subject to the limits allowed by the Internal Revenue Service.)
Donations can be made here.
$3 Billion? Is that all? We crap $3 billion every week in Iraq.
Our priorities are really really screwed up.
Bob you are a Libertarian. You guys don't like spending tax money unless it benefits you.
I can see why you don't like this.
I won't speak for all libertarians, nor should anon...
It's not the spending of tax dollars that bothers me, it's how they are spent, and more importantly, how they are taken from the people that earned the dollars.
In this case we're not spending money we already have, we're borrowing money from our children.
Only when cancer affects their father, mother, or member of their family, do they truly understand the importance of research and prevention.
John, do you honestly think that no members of the Executive Committee have family members with cancer? Is that what you're claiming?
It is so like the Harris County GOP who advocated the clubbing of young, disadvantage (sic) children
Clubbing.
I see your absence didn't temper your irresponsible hyperbole.
I refuse to believe that Texas can operate in a deficit. Otherwise I'm going to be really pissed because the Legislature a few years back slash CHIPS, and college funds in a effort to balance the budget. The state began placing tolls on road because road construction wasn’t placed in the budget.
Now here is a program that can generate possible solutions to medical issues that would benefit not just Texas but all mankind. This is apparently in the budget. Why reject the investment?
I'm confused about why this just isn't part of the budget of Texas anyway.
I am going to have to oppose this despite having my father fighting prostate cancer right now.
I do not want a GOP governor's friends deciding what medical facilities receive borrowed money to research cancer. What do you want to bet those scientists, doctors and hospitals suddenly become big political donors?
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