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Nov 26, 2009 at 12:00 AM CST
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Nov 25, 2009 at 5:18 PM CST
They want more funding for people who are HIV positive and who are susceptible to AIDS.
In a permissive society, as we are in today, the supply of drugs available to treat these people has been far outpaced by demand.
And the strain placed on community resources is enormous.
The State has had to come up with a waiting list of people who need services but for whom there is no funding.
There are just under 15K people who are HIV/AIDS-positive living in Tennessee.
There are more than 1M people living in the United States.
The undiagnosed with HIV/AIDS is somewhere around 230K.
The severe economic times are contributing to the degree of the shortfall.
But, AIDS has a cure, and it's not in the form of a vaccine.
It's called abstinence.
Let's face it, most are the direct result of risky sexual behavior, and some cases are attributable to intravenous drug use.
But we know how it's transmitted, who is at risk, and how to prevent it.
It is not necessary to throw more money at AIDS to find a cure. Stop the risky behavior!
Yet when the AIDS activists hear this, they go ballistic.
They want to throw more and more money at the problem.
Condom handouts and needle exchanges do not address the underlying problems.
Less than 1% of the American population has AIDS.
Of this reduced population , 2/3 come from gay men and intravenous drug users.
The remaining 1/3 comes from risky heterosexual contact.
It is false that the AIDS lobby rails that the heterosexual community is seeing increased cases of AIDS.
They want increased government funding for research. Heterosexuals are more likely to die from drowning in a bathtub, being hit by lightning, or attacked by a shark.
HIV/AIDS is a gay diseasse. And AIDS is Number 17 on a list of the leading causes of death in the United States.
Forty times more people die from cancer each year than do from AIDS, fifty times more than from heart disease.
But the National Institute of Health (NIH) spends more on AIDS research than other dieases, including all cancers put together.
The AIDS lobby gets the grease because it's the squeaky wheel. Individuals must taks responsibility for their actions!
The source for some material: "The Conservative's Handbook" by Phil Valentime, Copyright 2008.
