President Obama actually linked more government spending with a possible cure for cancer in his 2010 State of the Union address.
Next, we need to encourage American innovation. Last year, we made the largest investment in basic research funding in history – an investment that could lead to the world’s cheapest solar cells or treatment that kills cancer cells but leaves healthy ones untouched. And no area is more ripe for such innovation than energy. You can see the results of last year’s investment in clean energy – in the North Carolina company that will create 1200 jobs nationwide helping to make advanced batteries; or in the California business that will put 1,000 people to work making solar panels.
Yes, folks if the government would just spend more of your tax dollars on pet projects inserted into legislation by Senators and Congressmen we may just cure cancer.
Interestingly (and disturbingly) this is not the first time a Democrat has made the claim of miraculous healing being the direct result of increased government spending. Presidential hopeful and National Enquirer star John Edwards made the same claim at a rally in Iowa during the 2004 campaign.
If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
I cannot imagine the media fallout if a Republican were to make either of those statements. Politicians need to be held accountable for outrageous statements like these. If accountability will not happen in the press then it needs to happen at the ballot box.
