Posts Tagged ‘alcohol’

by Edwin Mora, Tuesday, May 12, 2009

(CNSNews.com) — The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job. Dr. Xiaoming Li, the researcher conducting the program, is director of the Prevention Research Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. The grant, made last November, refers to prostitutes as “female sex workers”–or FSW–and their handlers as “gatekeepers.” . . . Li said his study is being done in China rather than the U.S. because prostitution occurs with alcohol use in the United States like it does in China, Americans will be able to benefit from the project’s findings.

Read more at http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=47976

(The above is one of) 50 Examples of Government Waste

Read more examples at http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/08/50-examples-of-government-waste/

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These are just a few examples of why we have a TRILLION dollar deficit (along with TARP etc.)