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05-05-2009, 10:37 AM
Yeah, I think he's shot his load, needs to retire and enjoy the rest of his life's pursuits OUTSIDE of SPENDING more of OUR money!! His FACTS are getting a BIT fuzzy!!
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*Specter Claims Kemp Would Be Alive if Congress Better Funded Medical Research*
On CBS' "Face the Nation," Sen. Arlen Specter suggests that one of the reasons he left the GOP was because it did not share his interest in funding medical research. . .
Specter added: "If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine." . . .
But his claims about Nixon's "war on cancer" and Kemp, the former Buffalo Bills MVP who died of an undisclosed cancer after a lengthy illness, raised eyebrows -- since the government has devoted billions to cancer research since Nixon's call in 1971 for a campaign to find a cancer cure.
The National Cancer Institute had a $4.8 billion budget in fiscal 2008. Since the early '70s, the National Cancer Institute's budgets have totaled more than $80 billion, according to historical budget statistics.
"We are spending more money on cancer research -- public and private -- than President Nixon ever dreamed," said one column critical of Specter's comments on The American Thinker blog.
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Good Night and good riddance Mr. Spector!!
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*Specter Claims Kemp Would Be Alive if Congress Better Funded Medical Research*
On CBS' "Face the Nation," Sen. Arlen Specter suggests that one of the reasons he left the GOP was because it did not share his interest in funding medical research. . .
Specter added: "If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine." . . .
But his claims about Nixon's "war on cancer" and Kemp, the former Buffalo Bills MVP who died of an undisclosed cancer after a lengthy illness, raised eyebrows -- since the government has devoted billions to cancer research since Nixon's call in 1971 for a campaign to find a cancer cure.
The National Cancer Institute had a $4.8 billion budget in fiscal 2008. Since the early '70s, the National Cancer Institute's budgets have totaled more than $80 billion, according to historical budget statistics.
"We are spending more money on cancer research -- public and private -- than President Nixon ever dreamed," said one column critical of Specter's comments on The American Thinker blog.
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Good Night and good riddance Mr. Spector!!
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