What could you do with $800,000? I can think of quite a few things... Pay off my student loan, buy a car, buy a house (outside of Louisiana), take a cruise, travel, go to Las Vegas, so forth and so on. Or maybe, I would start my own business and create jobs. Novel idea, don't you think? The last time I checked, the stimulus bill was supposed to help OUR economy and create jobs here in America. This so-called "Summer of Recovery" is about as big a joke as "Cash for Clunkers".
To pour salt in the wound, the stimulus plan is giving $800,000 to a weenie washing program in Africa to see if teaching African men to properly wash their goods after sex can reduce the spread of AIDS.
"The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study examining how to better encourage Africans to undergo voluntary HIV testing and counseling – however, only the penis-washing study received money from the 2009 economic stimulus law. The washing portion of the study is set to end in 2011." (CNS News)
Brilliant. Last time I checked, AIDS was spread by bodily fluids such as blood and "love juice". The way it was explained to me was that men in Africa generally are not circumsized. Because of this, if an uninfected man sleeps with an infected woman, her "love juice" can find its way into all of the little foreskin crevasses. Now-infected man sleeps with a different, non-infected woman and BOOM, she's now infected from the initial infected woman's...stuff. So, instead of teaching about condoms or abstinance, (or, I don't know, give the $800,000 to someone who can potentially create new American jobs?) they're going to teach them how to correctly wash their junk after bumpin uglies. Faaantastic.
To summarize, money from a STIMULUS bill to help OUR economy and OUR people create new jobs is being spent on AFRICAN MALES GENITALS. How exactly is that helping us? If you can explain, please do, because I just find it ludicris.
Arguements I'll ignore: "But the poor people in Africa need our help! AIDS is horrible over there!" "You're a racist!" "OMFGZZZZZZ itz all bushs fault neway!!!"
Thanks for reading!
Are. You. Kidding. Me??? PLEASE!! I'll stimulate the hell out of the economy with $800,000.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea. But I agree. Also, if we have spend money on that... why does it take $800,000? Couldn't that be done for much less? I mean... can't their own government teach people how to wash their... man parts?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I could do a lot with $800,000 that would stimulate the economy. Starting with new jobs.