do you think do we spend enough on that or
uh probably not from what i've been hearing i mean there's not enough getting done
oh yeah
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yeah i just kind of wonder uh you know i've been thinking
i don't know how much they spend on cancer and how much they spend on AIDS and some of those other things but it seems like uh
you know it needs to be somewhat equitable i guess as far as the number of people that are affected uh cancer seems to affect a lot more people and you'd think they need to spend more on that but
yeah
well you think this AIDS thing has been around since about nineteen eighty and
yeah
i would have thought by now they'd have been a lot more advances
yeah
in treatment and then again i guess there is i mean there's some drugs that they didn't have and
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i'm sure that didn't come cheap
yeah that's true it's uh i don't know it's kind of interesting issue you wonder
now it's gotten so out of hand that you know it's not just that the homosexual population and stuff like that uh you know it's affected everybody just even if you go to a hospital it's
kind of hard to know what to do and
yeah
you really i don't even think they really a decent idea of how many people really have it i
it's pretty uh
i would imagine a lot more people have it than they think and
yeah i keep thinking that myself
it's kind of a scary
i i was last year when the war thing was going on and it was over and they said it costed you know like seventy billion or something
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and they said if they had that much money for AIDS research they could have found found a cure
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so i kind of wondered about that
yeah
wait whether amongst
to me that's an astronomical amount of money and uh
yeah seventy
and uh but it suddenly comes from somewhere i don't know where it comes from but
yeah
and you just wonder i you know i look at kind of now too where we're getting all this people asking us for aid outside the country you know or to support the Soviet Union this that and the other and
you know i sometimes wonder if it's not time we started you know maybe turning some of that stuff back towards home and helping some of those problems and you know AIDS being one of them to
yeah
i think didn't the President put i don't know if it was a billion or so more dollars or something in the budget this well i guess it was in ninety one to try and find a cure for it or
there again that doesn't seem like a whole lot of money
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you know if to do something like that with
yeah
uh but i i kind of agree with you we should spend more in this country for not only AIDS but a lot of other things before we start helping other countries
yeah
yeah it's kind of kind of ironic ourselves we're on the down trend and here we are trying to still pick other people up and
yeah
seems like that's all we ever do and it comes back to haunt us in the long run
yeah
but
i mean in in in your own financial budget if if you're not doing well you're not going to help out anyone else
yeah yeah that's true i mean that you might that you want to try and be charitable but yet you got to take care of your own house and put your own house in order before you start dishing out to everybody else and
but but that's not the way this country is or ever been i think we've always
yeah i
they had reasons for it i think i heard one just the other day that
because of all the money he was you know giving away right now uh the president was i think his wife said something with well we've got to keep these countries in a democratic mode and
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uh sometimes i don't think it matters
no and and
yeah i i i agree that just
and and like i say what do we really get out of it a lot of times you know i guess if we didn't help the Soviet Union there could be just total chaos and go back to the old order but
you know we're either paying for it in weapons and arms or we're paying we're giving it to them for nothing you know
yeah
and then we you know at least we have jobs when we're making all the weapons and stuff it seemed like and now we don't even have those because we cut back so much and then we give it away and you just wonder what we really get out of it
my wife and i used to work at a research laboratory for the government
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and i know things go slow
yeah
an incredible amount of money is spent to achieve little or nothing sometimes
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so i understand
you know where the money gets ate up at and
but there really should just be more
more money spent
and now that
yeah and now that they're you know the weapon spending is going down
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but we could put some of these laboratories even like the one we worked at at Los Alamos put them onto you know more AIDS things
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yeah
well uh do you know that much about i mean have you ever met anybody that has AIDS or
not that i know of
yeah i've never met anybody myself but
i think that where we used to live we had a neighbor down the street and i heard a rumor that one of them died with AIDS
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but i never knew for sure i met them once or twice because they used to sell plants in the yard but
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i never really considered that i knew them so
yeah
just more passing but
yeah
yeah i just i haven't had anything strike home so it really hasn't hit me as bad as some you know you tend to sometimes wonder well hey you know you kind of brought it on yourself but like i say now it's getting so much more in
into society that people that you know have no intention of doing anything you know kind of end up with it and
you know little kids and stuff like that that
yeah
that is it's and i say i don't have any idea how much and there ought to be probably a lot more spent to
to find out i just i just hope they kind of keep things in perspective and remember there's a bunch of other
you know type diseases out there it seems you hear a lot more about the AIDS activists than you do these other people with these other diseases and
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