Investors Business Daily tells the truth.
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There haven’t been any real cuts to those budgets at all. At least not in the sense that any American household would recognize.
The CDC’s budget today is 25% bigger than it was in 2008 and 188% bigger than in 2000. The NIH budget has been flat for the past few years, but at a level that’s more than double what it was 14 years ago.
Plus, spending at both of these agencies has actually been higher than President Obama himself proposed (see chart). The 2014 NIH budget, in fact, is almost $1 billion bigger than Obama sought in his budget plan, released in early 2010.
True, the heads of these agencies are decrying cuts. But that’s what government officials always do, even as their budgets continue to grow. Besides, the CDC and NIH are desperate to point the finger of blame somewhere other than their own incompetence.
Even if there has been some cutting here and there at these agencies, it’s not as if there isn’t plenty of fat to trim.
If the NIH was really so concerned about developing an Ebola vaccine, for example, it could have directed more grant money to that effort, rather than wasting it researching such things as diseases among male sex workers in Peru ($400,000), why chimps throw feces ($600,000) and sexual attraction among fruit flies (nearly $1 million).
The CDC isn’t much better at husbanding its resources. A few years ago, it dumped $106 million into a swanky visitors’ center in Atlanta, even though it already had one. It bought $10 million worth of furniture for its lavish new headquarters and spent $1.7 million to advise Hollywood on medical plots.
Yes, the federal government has blown it on Ebola. But that’s not because the relevant agencies have too little money to spend. It’s the result of unfocused missions, bureaucratic bloat and a shameful lack of accountability.
I think that this Ebola crisis is an excellent reminder to us why we should not trust government to be accountable to people. We were told that the government was going to handle this, and there was nothing to worry about. But now we know that there has been mistake after mistake. We were told that Ebola could not spread, but now two nurses have it. It’s another case of the government saying one thing, but the opposite is actually true. If we’re going to have government, we should at least have competent government, and that certainly is not a Democrat government.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
This is exactly the lesson that we must learn. And we have demonstration after demonstration that our massive Leviathan government bureaucracy can only be massively wasteful and massively dysfunctional.
Our society always seems to learn the wrong lessons, and we are rarely properly taught the true lessons that we must learn from these examples (that are in the news daily): the centralized bureaucracy is an out of control monster and is accountable to no one except themselves. It exists in order to gain power and money and to enable make-work jobs for millions of unaccountable “workers” who can retire young and live with an elite special health care (non of that ObamaCare for them) and have pensions that almost no one could ever manage in the real world.
Our government has become a disgrace and a travesty, and bears almost no relation to what the Founding Fathers either planned or established. And here’s the benefit we get from the multi-trillion dollar government: they take manageable problems that the private sector could easily handle 100 times faster, 100 times better, and 1000 times cheaper. The government takes the problems and makes them 100 times worse. By definition they can only create further mayhem and chaos.
And the beauty of the system is that they take up to 60% of our hard earned blood and sweat money (ie: our lives), at threat of intimidation and persecution and jail, to pay for all this.
Just think about all the above for a minute. We are far too passive in living under this kind of tyranny. Why do we continue to just accept it?
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