WHY Is Federal $2 Billion in Funding for AIDS At Risk?

I find this matter - how the chowderheads in Washington are playing with $2 billion in federal funding for AIDS - massively infuriating. Anytime these dickheads choose to perceive any issue as "controversial" or one their more narrow minded constituents may view as "well, if these people lived a Godly life, they wouldn't HAVE this problem", they totally trash it.

Remember that the far right's "Great Saint" Ronald Reagan was HUGELY responsible for allowing AIDS to take such a hold here because he wanted to ignore it altogether. While AIDS would still be a horrible issue regardless of Reagan, his myopic and hypocritical administration cost us millions of lives and led to a much greater problem.

First, even if AIDS were "only" a gay plague, as it was so often represented in the past and continues to be again by the narrow minded, we still owe it to our citizens - of which gays represent at least 10% or about 30 million souls - to fund research, treatment, etc.

But AID is NOT a gay plague. It strikes throughout the population, with African-Americans and others of color at a much higher percentage than average. Black women are especially hard hit.