Tax Dollars to Study Prostitutes, Again

            The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded over one million dollars to study prostitutes in Asia.  The year the ongoing project will study the “social milieu” of male prostitutes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with your money.  In part, the tax dollars will be used to, “recruit young men who have recently initiated male sex work for participation in a one year series of ethnographic interviews to describe the unique vulnerabilities associated with the early course of male sex work.”  Just in case you think I could make this up, here is a link to the study proposal on the NIH website. 

            I’ve already reported how this same project funded a study of Chinese prostitutes so, I suppose it is only natural for them to move on to male prostitutes in another part of Asia.    

            Because of our growing budget deficit, the federal government regularly borrows money from China.  These same elected representatives turn around and use the money to study prostitutes in China and Vietnam.  Then these officials pass the bill to you and me.  Do you really believe that anyone in Washington cares about how much you are taxed or how they spend your money?