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Gates Foundation commits $450 million to 3rd World Health

It seems that the Gates foundation is doing more with its hundreds of millions of dollars than the United States Government is doing with hundreds of billions. Bill and Melinda Gates carefully identified areas of critical needs and points where a relatively small amount of funding could produce the best results. They decided that medical researchers were avoiding diseases that primarily affect the poorest countries. These diseases can make it impossible to pull the populace out of the cycle of poverty. The research sponsored by the Gates Foundation has the realistic potential to save millions of lives.

If I were President, I'd strip NASA of half it's funding and make its scientists work on a cycle, 2 years on space projects, 2 years on projects to develop environmental technologies and health technologies. I'd use the money saved to fund a National Science Administration, and I'd recruit Bill or Melinda Gates to head it, with the goal of using the same strategy for resource allocation that they use for the Gates Foundation.


Gates Funds $436 Million Worth of Radical Health Projects

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