Peter's T's original post...
http://www.dbinfosource.com/board/15400
The facts...
Precise budget requests are difficult to calculate, as online records from the 1980s are spotty. Nevertheless, New York University's archived, hard copies of budget documents from fiscal year 1984 through FY 1989 show that Reagan proposed at least $2.79 billion for AIDS research, education, and treatment. In a Congressional Research Service study titled AIDS Funding for Federal Government Programs: FY1981-FY1999, author Judith Johnson found that overall, the federal government spent $5.727 billion on AIDS under Ronald Reagan. This higher number reflects President Reagan's proposals as well as additional expenditures approved by Congress that he later signed.
Table 5 of Johnson's report shows annual federal AIDS spending during Ronald Reagan's watch. This is hardly the portrait of a do-nothing presidency:
Government Spending on HIV/AIDS
|
Fiscal Year |
($ Millions) |
% growth over previous year |
|
1982 |
8 |
|
|
1983 |
44 |
450.00 |
|
1984 |
103 |
134.09 |
|
1985 |
205 |
99.03 |
|
1986 |
508 |
147.80 |
|
1987 |
922 |
81.50 |
|
1988 |
1,615 |
75.16 |
|
1989 |
2,322 |
43.78 |
|
Total |
5,727 |
Source: Congressional Research Service
Peter T: "What sticks out most for me is the sense that during his eight years in office, I increasingly found myself out-of-step with the majority of Americans. Sadly, this continues today."
At least one of you out here on the fringe is lucid enough to admit it.
