Wow. just wow
OK, you have an infectious disease. You know how it's spread. You know that the rate of this disease varies wildly among certain population groups. So your answer would be to distribute the money evenly across the entire population? If I had say $300 million to spend on AIDS prevention I should buy everyone in the US 2 1/2 rubbers and call it done?
Or --- should I (I know this is cheating, using reason and all) use math and science to target that money into the population groups most at risk? African-American TGs have a very high rate of AIDS infection. Much higher than the general population. In part that's because African-Americans get much less health care than the general population, and TG persons get even less than that. Moreover, it's an infection rate that has not seemed to reduce as fast as other groups - like affluent white gay men who once had the highest rate, and now have one of the lowest AIDS rates.
Really, all federal health money is basically block-granted out to specific target groups for prevention or research.
BTW, pretty much the last thing Barrack Obama needs to do is sew up the African-American vote. Hell, at the rate this is going he isn't going to have to do anything to sew up the election because the longer the Republicans run, the lower the number of people who support them is. "Generic Republican" isn't even winning anymore. Really, those people have had 20 debates and as far as the polling goes, Barrack Obama has won every single one of them. I'm not even sure they care, as they are running a bunch of wealthy religious-fringe lunatics who know nothing of life in the real world and Ron Paul. All the "A Team" people declined, as did most of the B+ team. This is truly the bottom of their barrel. Out of the 4 on stage last night, only one currently has a real job. Ron Paul.
My favorite (well aside from the debate about contraception, which they really didn't answer, and is a topic from midway though the LAST CENTURY - is that: Syria is Iran's route to the sea Don't these guys even own a map? Really, the two countries don't even share a border, not to mention that Iran has ports on both the Indian Ocean as well as on the Persian Gulf. And their idea of cutting federal spending is to engage in a multi-trillion dollar land war with Iran and build a 2,000 mile security fence along the southern border using state of the art technology while manning it every ten feet with a federal employee. Brilliant.
And if you were going to 'spend money to buy votes' don't you think you'd spend it on people who are more likely (as opposed to less likely) to vote in the first place. Or spend the money on a popular target group with a target disease that is also popular? Like say - extremely cute rich white girls with tennis elbow?
