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Thread #145610   Message #3373428
Posted By: Sawzaw
07-Jul-12 - 08:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Google Done Good
Subject: RE: BS: Google Done Good
Exactly what has Obama done to our largest foreign creditor other than flap his jaws and whine?

"Obama tries to bolster his image as a hard-liner against China. On Thursday, the administration lodged a new complaint against China at the World Trade Organization, challenging tariffs on U.S. auto exports."

Why is biggest U.S. creditor getting U.S. grants?

A grassroots pro-family group is outraged that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more $90 million in grants to Communist China.

The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) has completed a six-month investigation into the NIH's budget, discovering that in the past two and half years alone, it has awarded more than $30 million to scientists at Chinese universities and institutions to research Chinese medical issues. But the U.S. has given the Chinese government more than $90 million over the last decade.

TVC executive director Andrea Lafferty does not understand why America's biggest creditor needs grant money from the United States.

Andrea Lafferty (Traditional Values Coalition)"China holds over $1.1 trillion in American debt, yet we are sending our hard-earned taxpayer dollars to a communist country so it can fund the education of [its] citizens," she summarizes. "There are so many people in America that can't afford studies at colleges and universities."

She goes on to argue that the United States should not be giving taxpayer dollars to China for geopolitical reasons.

"A country that believes in killing [its] citizens, that [opposes] religious liberty, they support forced abortion -- it is a godless country," Lafferty points out. "It despises the United States. They're building up arms. We're very concerned about the potential arms race."

So the TVC is calling on the Obama administration and Congress to enforce a moratorium on NIH issuing grants while an independent investigation is conducted on its wasteful spending.