`Go Flu Yourself': Bush/Cheney Cut CDC Budget in Vaccine Crisis

Oct. 26, 2004—George W. Bush and Dick Cheney say: Their government's health agencies are now doing everything possible to solve the flu vaccine crisis—which their reckless negligence brought on. Bush and Cheney are lying again: They're trying, as they speak, to cut the budgets of those same agencies! For you, if you're sick, they're retooling Cheney's favorite insult: "Go flu yourself!"

That simple solution to the crisis threatens to kill more Americans than died in the 9/11 attacks. Warned repeatedly over three years that the vaccine production breakdown was coming, the Bush-Cheney Administration did absolutely nothing. They left it to the "invisible hand" of the "free market" to decide whether you and your loved ones live or die—from a preventable illness. Now, they continue to refuse to take any remedial actions: To declare a national emergency and put the entire resources of the Federal government into play to save American lives. And they talk about the war on terrorism and homeland security? This is criminal fraud, and their cynical lies put American lives in jeopardy.

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If they get a chance, Bush and Cheney will cut that budget after Election Day, with the budgets for health, the Veterans Administration, economic infrastructure, housing—while they push to privatize Social Security.

The same President George W. Bush who ignored official warnings since 2001 about a collapse of vaccine production; who then gloated in the last debate with Sen. John Kerry that he, personally, didn't need a flu shot; is now acting willfully and knowledgeably to perpetuate this vaccine crisis into next year. Dick Cheney—whose home state has the lowest child-vaccination rates in America—wants the funds diverted to his policy, perpetual war.


More... http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/press_releases_files/2004/041026_flu3.htm

Criminal Negligence.

Criminal Negligence.

Sounds like a freebie for the Bushies.

Larouche isn't LBN.