If the government doesn't do charity...

[KSoDBartman]

...no one will... right?

Gates foundation injects 750 million dollars for infant vaccination (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1508&u=/afp/20050125/hl_afp/whohealthgates_050125020334&printer=1)

GENEVA (AFP) - The foundation run by American computer software multi-billionaire Bill Gates (news - web sites) is to donate 750 million dollars (575 million euros) over 10 years for worldwide infant vaccination.I mean, we can't be trusted to help out others on our own. We need government to coerce us into doing it...

[MrVicchio]

I would be quite happy if the government quit giving money away.

But that's just me.

[Headrattle]

Some things it should do in order to foster growth. Mainly the sciences that don't create immediate commercial uses. It is one of those things that stregthens the nation as a whole.

[SandTrout]

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (http://www.hhmi.org/)