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By Jonathan Falwell
June 23, 2007
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56321
The next time you are feeling under the weather – perhaps home sick in bed and
looking for a way to pass the time – you may want to read through the new
115-page Senate report on the outrageous and wasteful spending practices of the
taxpayer-funded Centers for Disease Control, or CDC. On second thought, what you
read in this report just might make you feel worse.
For years, CDC officials in Atlanta have made the trek up to Capitol Hill to
request additional funding to carry out their mission of "preventing and
controlling disease, injury and disability." With the annual CDC budget
currently at $10 billion, Sen. (and medical doctor) Tom Coburn, R-Okla., decided
it was time for the activities of the CDC to be put under scrutiny.
Coburn spearheaded efforts to publish the just released Senate subcommittee
report "CDC Off Center." For an indication of what the investigative team found,
you need look no further than the report subtitle: "A review of how an agency
tasked with fighting and preventing disease has spent hundreds of millions of
tax dollars for failed prevention efforts, international junkets and lavish
facilities, but cannot demonstrate it is controlling disease."
Here are a few examples of outlandish CDC spending revealed in the report:
Construction of a lavish new $106 million visitor center in Atlanta – the
202,000 square foot Thomas R. Harkin Global Communications Center, including a
70 by 25 foot video wall of plasma television screens and a $20 million TV
studio. The previous visitor center was built in 1996.
A new $109 million 325,000 square foot Arlen Specter Headquarters and Emergency
Operations Center, also in Atlanta, including $9.8 million in office furniture.
A state-of-the-art "Lifestyle Facility" fitness center at the CDC's Atlanta
campus with free access for employees to enjoy such attributes as "zero-gravity"
chairs with a mood-enhancing light show, which one employee called "very
soothing," plus two "quiet rooms" and two "dry-heat saunas."
And if these expenditures don't raise your temperature, you might get a little
nauseous to learn about the taxpayer-funded activities at CDC-sponsored
conferences:
In 2003, taxpayers shelled out $300,000 for a conference in New Orleans that
featured a workshop on how to defund abstinence education and a sexually graphic
"entertainment" segment denigrating the vice president of the United States.
At a 2004 conference in Thailand, attended by 150 federal employees, attendees
could see a "drag" show, art shows, fashion parades and Brazilian dresses made
from condoms.
Your tax dollars were also at work at the 16th Annual International AIDS
conference in Toronto in 2006. This conference, which cost taxpayers $315,000,
included presentations designed to encourage recognition of prostitution as
"legitimate legal work." To make the point, one convention center exhibit
included three prostitutes lying on a satin-covered bed designed to "look like a
typical workplace."
As part of its mission in fighting the very real threat of acts of bioterrorism
against the United States, the CDC gave away in excess of $2.7 billion in grants
from 2002-2004. Los Angeles County alone received $83 million during this
period, $14 million of which was never spent. Nevertheless, the county received
an additional $27.9 million in 2006.
A review of L.A. County's spending of CDC funds by the Los Angeles Times said,
"At times, the spending has stretched the definition of terrorism readiness."
The Times may have come to this conclusion after learning how CDC bioterrorism
funds were used to hire Hollywood actors to portray patients in a smallpox
vaccination drill, costing $57,045 for the actors, $10,000 for gift
certificates, and $13,600 for pens, digital thermometers and bags for the gifts.
Other ludicrous uses of CDC grants include a transgender beauty pageant, a "safe
sex" event featuring a porn star, a "Bar Night" by the San Francisco-based STOP
AIDS Project and an article on how to throw an alcohol party by the same group,
using federal funds designated for HIV prevention.
This scathing senate report on the wasteful and ineffective (not to mention
often absurd) uses of CDC funds clearly demonstrates that the CDC has strayed
far from its noble mission of fighting and preventing disease. Since its
founding in 1946, Americans have trusted that the CDC has been doing its job,
but this new evidence shows this agency, like all government agencies, needs
constant oversight.
Hats off to Sen. Coburn and his staff for bringing to light this blatant abuse
of taxpayer money. If you would like to read the entire 115-page report, visit
Coburn's website. You can voice your opinion to the CDC by calling their public
line at (800) 311-3435 or sending an e-mail to cdcinfo@cdc.gov.
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Jonathan Falwell is the pastor of the historic Thomas Road Baptist Church in
Lynchburg, Va., the church his father started in 1956.