This article was about a month ago, but I was going through my hundreds of emails that I never got to and found the link.
Nice! Why are we sending 2.6 Million to China to train Chinese hookers (oh 'scuse me - "female sex workers") how to drink responsibly while they work?? Here's some of the article to give you the idea:
The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job.
The grant, made last November, refers to prostitutes as "female sex workers"--or FSW--and their handlers as "gatekeepers."
"Previous studies in Asia and Africa and our own data from FSWs [female sex workers] in China suggest that the social norms and institutional policy within commercial sex venues as well as agents overseeing the FSWs (i.e., the 'gatekeepers', defined as persons who manage the establishments and/or sex workers) are potentially of great importance in influencing alcohol use and sexual behavior among establishment-based FSWs," says the NIH grant abstract submitted by Dr. Li.
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=47976
I didn't vet it but it may be Bush's (or the Democratic congress') fault. Not sure about Obama vetoing it, but one of the commenters on the article said:
A few points need to be made. 1) The award was made last November, when Bush was at the helm. Those who suggest that Obama should have vetoed this are in a temporal time warp. 2) The NIH is an executive agency. Congress gives them funds, and they use a peer review process to give grants.
Nice! Why are we sending 2.6 Million to China to train Chinese hookers (oh 'scuse me - "female sex workers") how to drink responsibly while they work?? Here's some of the article to give you the idea:
The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job.
The grant, made last November, refers to prostitutes as "female sex workers"--or FSW--and their handlers as "gatekeepers."
"Previous studies in Asia and Africa and our own data from FSWs [female sex workers] in China suggest that the social norms and institutional policy within commercial sex venues as well as agents overseeing the FSWs (i.e., the 'gatekeepers', defined as persons who manage the establishments and/or sex workers) are potentially of great importance in influencing alcohol use and sexual behavior among establishment-based FSWs," says the NIH grant abstract submitted by Dr. Li.
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=47976
I didn't vet it but it may be Bush's (or the Democratic congress') fault. Not sure about Obama vetoing it, but one of the commenters on the article said:
A few points need to be made. 1) The award was made last November, when Bush was at the helm. Those who suggest that Obama should have vetoed this are in a temporal time warp. 2) The NIH is an executive agency. Congress gives them funds, and they use a peer review process to give grants.
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