In 1971 President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act of 1971 and the war on cancer was declared. We have been fighting this war now for about 44 years and there have been many small victories but no decisive knockout punch against cancer.

Today cancer is no longer a death sentence in many cases but it still is lethal in many areas.  We have learned many things about cancer prevention, early detection, and we have changed our life style to some degree to prevent some cancers.

Yet with 44 years of fighting this cancer war, the statistics still tell us that one out of two males will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifespan and one out of three women will also be diagnosed with cancer in their lifespan. Why is that problem still with us today?

The answer, is very simple, we have not done enough to fight this war. We have to understand that we fight this war with medical research and that means budgeting proper amounts of dollars to help universities, hospitals, laboratories and independent researches to do this work.

Centers for Disease Control, CDC have a budget of about 7 billion for 2016 and NIH has a budget of 30.3 billion for 2015. The NIH budget goes to more than 300,000 research personnel at over 3000 universities, medical schools and other research institutions throughout the world.

Cancer research competes with all other disease for fractions of these funds. These billions seem like a lot of budget dollars but they have not been enough to win the war against cancer. What is enough in budget dollars to help us solve this horrible cancer plague?

To understand what proper funding for cancer research should be we can compare the proportional present day funding for cancer research to the waste of budget dollars on insane and stupid funding of other government projects. My favorite and most clearly insane waste of our budget dollars was the Iraq war that cost us 4 trillion dollars and plus 5000 dead and 50,000 wounded and on top of this waste created the ISIS plague. This is a great example of budgetary waste, stupidity in our government and shows a complete lack of caring for the American people by our government, which even today, is still infested by neo-con, idiot, warmongers screaming for more wars, and, knowing how dumb the Iraq war was. Why are those ignorant maggots still in our government?

Other examples of wasted budget dollars are the two billion per week spent for 12 years in Afghanistan a real American debacle. (Like we should really, really, give a damn if these people have roads and schools. Their culture and history is several thousand years old and they did nothing with it.)

You can also look at another waste, and that is the one thousand foreign bases all over the world that cost us 250 billion per year. So…we can begin to see how miniscule cancer funding for cancer is when compared to the insane waste of budget dollars by our government of the people, for the people.

This disproportionate funding for the cancer war forces the people to try to raise money for cancer research by doing walks, runs and bake sales. Are we insane? Are we sheep? Why do we allow these clowns in Washington to so ignore our health, and waste our tax dollars on needless wars and force us to raise money for cancer research by organizing walks and runs?

To better understand our flawed budgeting process and our health care problem, and our caring government, we can cite a few events to explain the sad situation:

1. In 2014 there appeared a news item on MSN, 3/27/14 that said “U.S. Autism Estimates Rise By 30 Percent For Kids”. There was a study to try to understand this problem that was started in 2000 involving 100,000 kids until they were twenty –one. This important study would have lasted over twenty years and the total cost would have been 2.7 billion dollars, (about one week of fighting needless war in Afghanistan). Our President Bush in 2007 cancelled this study. What do you call an entity like that? This super brain wanted to save budget dollars.
2. We hear nothing what our government will do to protect us from people like Martin Shkreli and his start up company when they bought the rights for a drug Daraprim and raised the price for one pill from $13.50 to $750.00. Why don’t we do walks to help pay for the pill? (Really. Really is that capitalism?)
3. Look at the Republican debaters, how much was said about our health, our health insurance, drug costs, medical research, not very much.

So…we are left to ourselves to win the cancer war. We will get no help from the budget cutters, the flat tax ideas, the trickle down treasures falling on our heads from the 1% greedy hogs, we have to do something by ourselves because our government does not represent us today. What should we do?

1. We should become politically active and take our government back from the 1%, the bankers, hedge fund managers and the neo-con warmongering maggots.
2. We should force our news media to be objective and not try to distract us with news about deflated footballs, sex change operations for confused people, marriage licenses for gays denied by religious nut jobs, and the idea of baking cakes for gays as news items that compete with real problems that we face. Those type of garbage news are pushed in our faces by our controlled news media to distract us from real problems facing us. When we are distracted the greedy banks rob us, our businesses move to China, warmongers get more money for wars, the middle class gets destroyed, and the poor people get blamed for destroying our economy with food stamps. (Capitalism really, really works super well for the 1% but not for the rest of America.)

President Obama has finally managed to increase the budget for cancer research.

It is truly humorous how the warmongering maggots scream and howl about the four Americans killed in Benghazi but not one word is said about the 600,000 thousand Americans who die from cancer every year. The numbers should show even the dumbest human being where and what war should be fought with our budget dollars.

Increasing cancer funding might be the one thing that even the dumbest conservatives will not dare to blame Obama for. He is blamed for everything else, by some.

Valentine  Krumplis