My LTE in todays Roanoke(va) times
Letter: GOP Ebola panic and NIH, CDC budget cuts
Well now, let's see — Republicans demanded a hearing on why that nurse got Ebola from a patient.
However, look back a ways and you will find those same Republicans cut the budget for the National Institutes Health and Centers for Disease Control, which of course would have been working on a cure for Ebola.
Republicans are currently refusing to have a hearing on the funding.
Regarding Ebola mania: How about the thousands of Americans who die each year from smoking, drinking, overeating? Not a single hearing on those. Nor do you hear anything about the estimated 625,000 people around the world who die yearly from malaria.
When did they take the word "priorities" out of the dictionary?
CLYDE H. DEEDS
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they refuse to allow the CDC to have anything to do with is gun violence.
Well done!
