As we here at TPOL have been researching and writing commentary the last several days, an interesting question (or group of questions) came up.
The first regards Dr. Faucet (we know, his name is really Fauci – but this isn’t a typo.)
We can now be fairly certain that he funneled money to China, and in particular to the Wuhan laboratories, to support research on “gain of function” for various viruses. Including the infamous and historic SARS-CoV2 virus which was released from that lab and is the cause of COVID-19. (What we generally call “Beer Flu” in derision: not that it hasn’t killed people, but to remind us of how this fiasco has impacted us.)
The GAO tells us that the NIH and other related agencies gave grants of 3.7 million dollars (US-FRNs) between 2014 and 2019 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. During that five-year period, a total of 28.9 million dollars went from DHS (and presumably other FedGov agencies) directly to Chinese entities, supposedly for research.
Now, 3.7 or 28.9 million is a drop in the bucket for Uncle Sam’s burning pockets in the days of trillion FRN deficits and a national debt approaching $40 trillion.
But why? Why is the FedGov sending ANY money (grants or not) to China and therefore directly or indirectly to the Chinese Communist Party?
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The Price of Liberty 
It isn’t just the media that stinks today
A friend shared this from an unknown author.
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment,.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days.”
The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
The older lady said that she was right, our generation didn’t have the “green thing” in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could reuse the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. We used old newspapers to line birdcages.