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2009 US Budget Holds Mixed News For Science
sciencehabit writes "ScienceNOW has the details on the impacts of President Bush's appropriation request — bad news for biomedicine, better news for the physical sciences. Some agencies really get slammed and many projects are jeopardized. The Bush administration's theory is that a 5-year run-up in National Institutes of Health funding, which ended in 2003, left the federal funding picture seriously unbalanced. Each year since then the administration's budget request for science has moved to shift the balance. Biomedical researchers are expected to lobby hard in Congress for relief. The NYTimes notes that prognosticators expect Congress not to act on a budget until the next President arrives, betting on it being a Democrat. "
There's no less objective entity on earth than the US government. To think any money it steals in favor of "science" is a worthy cause is a serious delusion. The less money goverment spends on science, the more actual knowledge we may discover.
There should be no government spending on scientific research at all - and no government prohibitions on research (eg stem cell research).
But I'm afraid this simple truth is beyond the grasp of most intellectuals. And nerds.
Well, considering I posted a link with all the evidence necessary to prove you wrong, and you posted not one iota of evidence to the contrary, I fail to see what you think is so definitive about your argument.
Perhaps if hundreds of years of court decisions, case law, and opinions from Constitutional Scholars didn't disagree, you might have something.
As it is, you're a guy who links to his own bloviating as though it were proof of anything, which would be humorous if it weren't so sad.