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Vint Cerf and Others Form Advocacy Group
Omega writes "Vint Cerf, father of TCP/IP, and several Nobel Prize winners have formed a 527 committee called 'Scientists and Engineers for Change.' Among their major complaints are that the Bush administration has ignored and misused scientific findings to achieve political goals and that it has stifled scientific research. While the group isn't officially endorsing Kerry, Dr. Cerf points out it's pretty obvious what their goal is."
Yes, those lies. They haven't been shown to be true either, and those who served with Kerry back him up all the way. He's a war hero, and unlike the cowardly GW Bush who went AWOL from a cushy national guard assignment, Kerry actually shot and killed a man in a war.
If you're going to send our boys to Iraq to fight and possibly die, then their leader should be someone who has actually killed someone with their hands, who knows what it is.
Bet you weren't expecting that kind of response from a liberal.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Several, actually. You can find them on johnkerry.com/issues/technology/plan. I just cherry-picked a few examples:
- Provide substantial research increases for clean energy, medicine, advanced manufacturing, information technology, nanotechnology, and other priorities.
- Extend the Research & Experimentation tax credit
- Provide a tax credit to ensure that broadband access is universal and affordable
- Expand spectrum that is available for wireless broadband
- Remove restrictions on federal funding of stem cell research
These and other ideas are laid out in fairly impressive detail on the site. The first point is most important to me. Bush completed the planned 5-year doubling of the NIH budget only by a technicality in 2003, and both it and the NSF are taking a big hit this year. His budgets plan further cuts in following years. Science is not a priority for him. It is for Kerry.