Why Bush cares more about spending on weapons rather than medical research, like AIDS research?
The only thing more stunning than the naivete of your question is the blinding ignorance portrayed by many of the answers. Except mine, of course. Unless you are a close acquaintance of his, I doubt that you or I can say he “cares” more about weapons than AIDS research. Let us ask, rather why he “spends” more on one than the other. Does it really matter what he “cares” about? And you surely do not imagine that the President acts independently, just writing big checks for guns and little ones for medicine. It is the ENTIRE CONGRESS that votes on the defense and medical research budgets. So, we should ask why the GOVERNMENT spends more on weapons than it does on medical research. And every President before Bush -and every Congress before this, the 110th session, has also voted more money for defense than for medical research. I’m not sure why you or anyone would think this is exclusively a Bush item. But let’s take a factual assessment to see why the government has been spending more on
