You are probably correct. A couple of thousand little garage shops started up by college drop-outs would certainly get that cancer cure before any well-funded program funded by the citizens of the USA. Look at Apple and Microsoft as examples. In fact, why not ask Bill - with his worldwide tax on computer users, let him pay for it.
As far as waste, perhaps we should give the task to the HMOs. They may never cure cancer, but they will certainly make sure that the research scientists don't get more money than they need to solve the problem.
If the people of the US ever decide they want cancer cured, and put the appropriate pressure on their reps, it will get done. There may be lots of waste, duplication, and fraud. But it will get done. And when it is all done, plenty of critics will arise to tell us all how it could have been done better by somebody else. And Billions of dollars worth of air time will be spent complaining about it, and investigating it. Many jobs will be created in journalism, books written, speeches given, elections won and lost. But cancer will have been cured. Just like the many projects that our government has accomplished when we wanted them to.
And if we are lucky, a whole new economy will be created as a spin-off of the war on cancer... like all of modern technology was kicked off as an offshoot of the moon-race. "... that goal will serve to organize the best in us...".
Hopefully, private industry will cure cancer soon without the government.
Go LGND,
Herbert
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