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Bravo! >From: Maggie Tittle <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: CALIFORNIA: Governor Aims Ax At Small-Change Programs >Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:32:28 -0800 > >Greg and Ray, right-on > > >At 01:32 AM 1/16/2004 -0800, you wrote: >>Joann, >> >>I disagree. It is politics that has increased per patient spending on PD >>ten-fold in less than 10 years. And it is the uncompassionate conservatism >>and pandering to the extreme right of the Bush administration that has >>taken 15% annual increases iin the NIH budget down to 1 to 3 % max for >>FY04. >> >>It isnt mutual hugs, the PD fairy, or wishing real hard that has brought >>us to human clinical trials in spheramine, gdnf, neuoimmunophilin ligands, >>and a prediction by Mahlon Delong of Emory University that human clinical >>stem cell trials might begin in 2005 (next year). >> >>It is advocacy in DC and the statehouses, fundraising across the country, >>and raising the awareness level of this once moribund community that has >>accomplished this. It is politics pure and simple. >> >>We need the hugs. But we need the money. And we need to face the facts of >>our dilemna without blinking. We can sit on our butts and complain about >>our aches and pains and wait to die, or we can believe in our collective >>power to change our own prognosis and act to save ourselves and future >>generations from this awful disease.. >> >>We need more politics, not less. >> >>Respectively, >> >>Greg Wasson >> >>Jo Ann Coen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>Jesus Christ, Carrie. Back off. No one wants to hear politics on this >>list. At least, I don't think so. Why don't YOU go to Mars? J o Ann >> >>On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:16:55 EST Carrie Barrott >>writes: >> > In a message dated 1/13/2004 11:03:05 PM Pacific Standard Time, >> > [log in to unmask] writes: >> > Schwarzenegger was indiscriminately cutting cost-effective programs >> > that have >> > little effect on the state budget. >> > ** >> > Maybe he could join his pal George on Mars... What a mess. >> > >> > Carrie >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >> > mailto:[log in to unmask] >> > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn >> > >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >>mailto:[log in to unmask] >>In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn >> >>--------------------------------- >>Do you Yahoo!? >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >>mailto:[log in to unmask] >>In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn >>Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn _________________________________________________________________ High-speed users—be more efficient online with the new MSN Premium Internet Software. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=byoa/prem&ST=1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn