Re: CALIFORNIA: Governor Aims Ax At Small-Change Programs

[Greg Wasson <gregm94610@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joann,

I disagree. It is politics that has increased per patient spending on PD 
ten-fold in less than 10 years. And it is the uncompassionate conservatism and 
pandering to the extreme right of the Bush administration that has taken 15% 
annual increases iin the NIH budget down to 1 to 3 % max for FY04.

It isnt mutual hugs, the PD fairy, or wishing real hard that has brought us to 
human clinical trials in spheramine, gdnf, neuoimmunophilin ligands, and a 
prediction by Mahlon Delong of Emory University that human clinical stem cell 
trials might begin in             2005.

It is advocacy in DC and the statehouses, fundraising across the country, and 
raising the awareness level of this once moribund community that has 
accomplished this. It is politics pure and simple.

We need the hugs. But we need the money. And we need to face the facts of our 
dilemna without blinking. We can sit on our butts and complain about our aches 
and pains and wait to die, or we can believe in our collective power to change 
our own prognosis and act to save ourselves and future generations from this 
awful disease..

We need more politics, not less.

Respectively,

Greg Wasson

Jo Ann Coen <jac580@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jesus Christ, Carrie. Back off. No one wants to hear politics on this
list. At least, I don't think so. Why don't YOU go to Mars? J o Ann

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:16:55 EST Carrie Barrott
writes:
> In a message dated 1/13/2004 11:03:05 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> mcharters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Schwarzenegger was indiscriminately cutting cost-effective programs
> that have
> little effect on the state budget.
> **
> Maybe he could join his pal George on Mars... What a mess.
>
> Carrie
>
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