Rumsfeld Cashing In on Bird Flu Scare

[luna_k]

This is almost as bad as Halliburton's Katrina profiteering.

From Pam's House Blend:
Since you might have missed our dear leader's newsflash plan to combat the bird flu, let's take a look at the major points, which will cost the taxpayers $7.1 billion. (AP):

1. $1.2 billion to stockpile enough vaccine against the current H5N1 flu strain to protect

Comments

[blindman738]

Makes sense why he would recuse himself just a few days ago. *sigh* Just when you think that a Republican is doing something decent for once...this. As if he didn't know beforehand this was coming. Thanks for this. I'm...uhm...stealing recusing myself from this.

[anne_jumps]

Yes, why sell your stock when you can just not do your job?

As I hear it, Tamiflu has a monopoly on the particular formula it uses.

[blindman738]

They do. Well, Roche does. Go HERE, HERE and HERE for some good articles on Roche and Tamiflu.

[fuzzyspacekitty]

Wow.. That's... That's insane. That's absolutely nuts. *brain boggles* Why don't we just take a huge stack of money and put it on a big altar as a sacrifice to the bird gods? Cuz, yeah, that's about as much good as this crazy shit is gonna do. (Oh, but that wouldn't get any money to Rummy, duh...unless he's a bird god in disguise! Oh my god! That whole 'The sky is falling' bit totally makes sense now!) Oh god, this whole f'in country has gone crazy (again).