44 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's. NIH spends $327 per victim while Americans spend $1,200 per person on alcohol to forget things temporarily.
Think by Numbers runs cost-benefit analyses for a species that spends $604 on weapons for every $1 on clinical trials. We suspect a math error.
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The DEA becomes the DTA. One letter changes; the war ends. Addiction is a disease, and you already bought the machine that treats diseases.
Lobbyists write bills and give them to politicians who can't read. You're about to become the best lobbyist in history, except your bills actually help people instead of killing them.
The purpose of government is to promote the general welfare, measured by the median healthy life years and median after-tax inflation-adjusted income of its citizens. This document is a polite request that they do so.
Cancer kills 14 times more people than opioids (1 in 7 vs 1 in 96). Media covers opioids wall-to-wall. Cancer gets a 5K run with matching shirts.
Ron Paul proposed $1 trillion cuts. Romney, Gingrich, Cain only $20 billion each. Real inflation 10% not 3.5%. Hidden tax hits hardest.
You spend more administering help than you spend helping. 80+ welfare programs replaced by one for-loop.
You spend fourteen billion dollars to count everyone once every ten years. citizenCount() returns in fifty milliseconds. The count is the toy on top; the real product is the sensor array that measures the two numbers the whole machine steers by.
War is a negative-sum game and the spreadsheet agrees. Wishonia's replacement for the Department of Defense requires zero lines of code.