Well Spent

One of the pro-Tax-crowd’s more corrosively stupid slanders of the Tea Party movement was the slur that we “want to destroy government” and want to “abolish all taxes”.

There are no doubt a few of those outliers out there.  But for the most part, we simply advocate limiting government as much as possible to the areas where it’s supposed to be

And one of those areas is public safety, in all of its various forms.  The military; police; fire departments; and of course, with swine flu in the news, public health.

Minnesota, and Ramsey County, have good, solid public health departments; I know very few even among the most libertarian among us who begrudge a dime of their (fairly modest) budgets. 

RamCo Public Health is getting out the Swine Flu info. It’s well worth a read.

14 thoughts on “Well Spent

  1. Well, at least now we know how the liberals, the government, and the media (increasing one political party these days) react to an honest-to-God grass roots movement that opposes government policy.

  2. Yes, of course. Whenever there’s some emergency, you wingnuts pretend you’d fund it. Just for everyone’s scorecards, you teabaggers are in favor of government-funded flu shots but against volcano monitoring?

  3. Wasn’t actually going into specifics, Clown. Wasn’t aware of a conservative crusade against monitoring volcanoes. But let the record show that it’s the liberals who always underfund the military and the police.

    Since there is no vaccine for this strain of Swine Flu, flu shots at this point would be a classic liberal entitlement, though.

  4. Angry Clown is a typical liberal. He thinks that there is an infinite pool of money out there just waiting to be tapped so it can be used to improve ‘the public good’.
    There isn’t an infinite amount of money anywhere. Any money spent for ‘volcano monitoring’ is money that is not spent on something else — say, someone’s college fund for their kid or maybe vaccinations for all poor kids.
    How do we know that $140,000,000 is enough to spend on ‘volcano monitoring’? It’s not as the number came from an exhaustive scientific cost/benefit study, it came from my senators, Inouye and Akaka. Neither of them is a geophysicist.
    But just to calm Angry Clown’s fear I’ll go drive the four miles to the Halemaumau overlook & check on the volcano for him.

  5. MItch says:
    Since there is no vaccine for this strain of Swine Flu, flu shots at this point would be a classic liberal entitlement, though. ”

    I was listening this afternoon to a report by one of the MN state epidemiologists on swine flu, who indicated that the tamiflu vaccine was effective in prevention, and as a treatment for early cases. Check out the Center for Disease control’s website – a good source for the most current information, including on the supply and distribution of stockpiled antiviral meds, and the release of funds triggered by the declaration of emergency.

  6. TERRY MAKES THE FEAR SUBSIDE, ASSCLOWN REPAYS HIM WITH A GOOD OL’ SPHINCTER POLISHING

  7. DG,

    I’m no doctor (doyy) (although I was a pre-med for three weeks, sorta) but Tamiflu is not a vaccine; it’s an antiviral. It doesn’t build immunity (which is what a vaccine is); taken before an infection, it’s a “prophylactic” (cue Angryclown)

    (wait for it…)

    (wait for it…)

    Hopefully they still have some of the stockpiles of it they built up after the Anthrax scare…

  8. Okay, I just got back from Halemaumau. It’s smoking away, as usual: http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cams/KIcam/
    The chance that it is a threat to Angry Clown’s padded cell in Arkham Asylum is nil.
    Eight mile round trip @ $0.38 per mile=$3.04. I leveraged the trip by stopping at the post office on the way back home. There’s a cute new chick working there — score! And the new cigarette holder I ordered was waiting in my PO box — double score!!
    Nevertheless my invoice remains at $3.04, Mr. Clown. Yes, I’m dunning you.

  9. Tamiflu is not a vaccine; it’s an antiviral
    And must be used in the first 48 hours. The symptoms of this latest flu don’t become obvious until 72 hours.
    Conversely, the Clown Flu presents symptoms in about fifteen to twenty seconds. The knee-jerking is unmistakable.

  10. Hey, isn’t AC a lawyer? And isn’t persecution by trial lawyers the reason vaccine companies left the USA?

    So isn’t the lack of swine flu vaccine AC’s personal fault?

    Taking a page from the AIG book, somebody shoul drive by his house and picket his wife and kids. ‘Cuz that’s what good liberals do to scapegoats.

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