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

[DAVID LEWIN <lewin44@xxxxxxx>]

Bravo!


> From: Maggie Tittle <cturtle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network
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> Subject: Re: CALIFORNIA: Governor Aims Ax At Small-Change Programs
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:32:28 -0800
>
> Greg and Ray, right-on
>
>
> At 01:32 AM 1/16/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> > 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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