Really? We can spend $700 billion+ on a porkulus and $2 trillion on climate change bullcrap, yet we can’t manage to find the funds needed to help fight HIV/AIDS? I’ve given up trying to find this administration’s priorities.

Leading disease experts said President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget proposal for global health falls far short of what is needed to combat the deadly twin epidemics of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Details on global health spending were released by the White House today, and a preliminary analysis indicates the President is proposing only $165 million in additional funding for bilateral AIDS as well as the US contribution to the Global Fund. “This proposal is even worse than we had feared. With this spending request, Obama has broken his campaign promise to provide $1 billion a year in new money for global AIDS, and he has overlooked the growing threat of tuberculosis,” said the Center for Global Health.[...]

This unfolding health crisis could quickly spread, as people who stop treatment become far more infectious. Treatment disruption can also lead to drug-resistance, an extremely expensive and potentially deadly development.

But, you know, let’s cut funding for fighting the epidemics. It can be much better spent on fighting something that climatologists can’t even agree exists in the first place. Craptastic.