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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