Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman seems a little different than Senator Joe Lieberman. The latter was a paradigm of fiscal responsibility, but the former proposes to spend $150 billion on basic medical research to cure a whole host of diseases, from cancer to AIDS. Lieberman Wants Disease Cures [The Advocate].
Now I am all for subsidizing medical research, but this is a bit too posturing for my taste. As a nation we are spending so much on health care already with Medicare and Medicaid, curing the stuff we already can, that there’s no way we can afford any more cures!!