Bird War 2006!

In a move that throughout the ages has been used to enslave a given population in the name of saving them, the Associated Press reports -

"President Bush outlined a $7.1 billion strategy Tuesday to prepare for the danger of a pandemic influenza outbreak, saying he wanted to stockpile enough vaccine to protect 20 million Americans against the current strain of bird flu."

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't we trying to conserve money at this point? We are even going to the point of cutting school lunches to conserve money, namely $3.7 billion. Can someone please call Bush and ask him these two questions:

1. Since when does the federal government have the constitutional authority to administer a vaccine program?
2. Does cutting $3.7 billion in one place and spending $7 billion more in another equal a reduction in spending?

"The fact is, our country is going broke," said Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio. "We're spending money we don't have and passing it onto our kids, and at some point, somebody's got to say, `Enough's enough.'"

Really. I agree completely, but perhaps we need to stop overall spending, not just pet projects that will get your own party slaughtered in the 2006 elections.

The Real Effect
I see this as nothing more than attempt to line the pockets of the makers/shareholders of the proposed vaccine. More specifically, according to Global News Matrix, Donald Rumsfeld, George P. Shultz, Lodewijk J.R. de Vink, and Bilderberger chairman Etienne F. Davignon.

We have no threat, yet we are most likely going to spend billions on a non-existent virus.

Edited for appearance and labels on 3/19/2010.