Taxpayer Fund Training for Chinese Prostitutes – $2.6 Million! Are You Upset With Gov’t Spending?
May 19, 2009 by Charlie
Filed under FairTax News
Monday, May 18, 2009
Source from ARRA
Are You Upset With Government Spending? If not, hopefully you will be after reading the below article.
As promised news that makes the Taxpayer’s blood boil.Another U.S.-funded sex and drinking study – this time in China Earlier in the month, U.S. taxpayers funding drinking studies in Argentina.Turns out, China is getting some of our money as well. In fact, they’re getting $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job. No – I’m not making this up.
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.”
“Previous studies in Asia and Africa and our own data from FSWs [female sex workers] in China suggest that the social norms and institutional policy within commercial sex venues as well as agents overseeing the FSWs (i.e., the ‘gatekeepers’, defined as persons who manage the establishments and/or sex workers) are potentially of great importance in influencing alcohol use and sexual behavior among establishment-based FSWs,” says the NIH grant abstract submitted by Dr. Li.” Therefore, in this application, we propose to develop, implement, and evaluate a venue-based alcohol use and HIV risk reduction intervention focusing on both environmental and individual factors among venue-based FSWs in China,” says the abstract.
Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? Are you opposed to government funding such studies in the first place? But if they’re going to do so, can they please actually do them in the U.S? If the problem is present here, rather than fund extended vacations for researchers in exotic locales?
