GOP lawmaker wants to end HIV prevention funding

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http://michiganmessenger.com/45709/gop-lawmaker-wants-to-end-hiv-prevention-funding

Agema would shift health funding to airports

By Todd A. Heywood | 01.18.11 | 8:17 am

LANSING — A bill submitted by state Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) that would eliminate state funding for HIV prevention and other important health initiatives, is raising alarms in the public health community.

Agema has proposed eliminating the Michigan Health Fund Initiative (MHFI) which is a special Michigan Department of Community Health fund created by law by diverting a small percentage of sales tax revenues into the fund.

“This is almost like double-dipping,” Agema told Michigan Messenger in a phone interview. He said the program funded by the MHFI was funded in other areas of the Michigan Department of Community Health budget.

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1. These nuts have no shame.

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2. Because nothing brings back jobs and jump-starts the economy like social diseases.

Seriously, these people are from the Dark Ages.