Not a direct quote but nice to see Bush tying lawsuits in with the bird flu. He also blamed bad attorneys for telling him that there were WMD’s in Iraq and apologized to the Americans and Iraqis killed, his bad. But to his Defense, those same attorneys did have the largest ad on the back of the yellowpages.
(sidenote, Rumsfeld owns stock in the company that produces the vaccine, lucky him!)
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**AP) **President Bush outlined a $7.1 billion strategy Tuesday to prepare for the danger of a pandemic influenza outbreak, saying he wanted to stockpile enough vaccine to protect 20 million Americans against the current strain of bird flu.
The president also said the United States must approve liability protection for the makers of lifesaving vaccines. He said the number of American vaccine manufacturers has plummeted because the industry has been hit with a flood of lawsuits.
Bush said no one knows when or where a deadly strain of flu will strike but “at some point we are likely to face another pandemic.”
The president, in a speech at the National Institutes of Health, said the United States must be prepared to detect outbreaks anywhere in the world, stockpile vaccines and anti-viral drugs and be ready to respond at the federal, state and local levels in the event a pandemic reaches the United States.
Bush outlined a strategy that would cost $7.1 billion including:
So UTD, you will rather have the companies close down and people lose their jobs than to protect them. Nice going...Atta boy UTD. It is the same crap dems and liberals pull up about outsourcing, they want to put all these crappy rules and regualtions that drive up the price/wages that the businessess have no other option to look elsewhere, and when they do the blame the big corporations. That is the exact same reason I can never ever be a liberal/democrat.
The reason I can never be a conservative/republican is because they worry more about driving up the gazillion dollar profits of the drug industry rathern saving dying people, alleviate the $500/mth presciption payment for seniors on limited income and people dying because drugs are rushed to the market.
^ No but have you looke at the health coverage costs lately.
PA, tell me how does an increase in the minimum wage help the economy?
Seminole, if dems would keep their hands and greedy grubby fingers out of the hard earned money of the tax payers maybe there is hope......those senios will be in much better shape if the dems had stopped using their social security money to fund crap projects such as drug rehabilitiation (sp?) and provide health care coverage to the same sex partners...so please your violin is out of tune and needs an overhaul much like the democratic party.
Kaleem, it is your favorite party that are the budget busters. We now have ample historical proof that a republican administation cannot balance the budget. You want no taxes for the wealthy, no sharing of wealth with the backbone that supports it yet want all the pork spending to please constituents.
Your narrow-minded, conservative views about drug rehabilitation funding and same sex partner benefits are further proof why I want nothing to do with republicans and their selfish, fake morality.
No semi...Social Security funds are for Social security not for fags and not for druggies....learn to discern my friend. Compassion is good, but if you combine it with dimwits, what you get is retard dems and liberals.....you want money for those programs....raise taxes or better yet ask all the bleeding heart liberals such as Al Gore, Hillary, and that San Fran bitch and all the holloywood arm chair politcians to open up their trunks of money and donate for their fellow fags and druggies....dont ask me to foot the bill for them. Leave the social security money for its purpose.
You learn to discern… calling someone a fag is no better than someone else calling you a raghead, or sand******. Don’t be so self-righteous, you aren’t necessarily better than any given homosexual or liberal. I know of many liberals and homosexuals who have more righteous things to say than the hate you sometimes post.
I hear ya on raising money for liberal causes, as long as narrow-minded, self righteous war mongers raise their own money to wage wars and lie to and deciet the American people (and world)
UTD, maybe you are careless with your money and do not understand how to be fiscally responsible, but trust me some of us have a better grasp of finacnes then a democratic senator.
