Politically Conservative Adventures in SL

A bill called H.R. 5501 has just been approved that will send 48 billion dollars to third world countries to help them treat AIDS and  the secondary infections of Tuberculosis and Malaria that end up killing a large percentage of African AIDS sufferers.   With only 36.1 million  people on earth infected with HIV the amount seems too high to waste on treating people.  It is a cost of $1,329.63 per  person infected with HIV, even more money per person if you factor out the US citizens who suffer from HIV, because they won’t see any of this money or the support this money funds.

It seems to me that this money would have benifited the world more if we would have invested the 48 billion dollars in a cure for HIV/AIDS rather than prolonging the suffering of people in the third world.  Sure that would take longer for results, but  an end to the disease would save more lives in the end.

Also, in case you didn’t notice Congress tacked on an additional 2 Billion for an American Indian Safety and Health Fund.  Not that I care that they  want to help American Indians, but don’t you think they could have made a seperate bill?  Heck, wouldn’t it be better to give them the AIDS money to fix their land, before we try to fix the world?