'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget

jamie writes "As some of you may have heard, the incoming Republican majority in Congress has a new initiative called YouCut, which lets ordinary Americans like me propose government programs for termination. So imagine how excited I was to learn that YouCut's first target — yes, its first target — was that notoriously bloated white elephant, the National Science Foundation."

Comments

Re:Everybody take a deep breath!!!

[poppycock]

With all due respect, fuck your deep breath. I know that the entire budget of the NSF won;t be cut, even under the most conspiratorial scenarios.

The issue here is one of priorities. Cutting science *first* is like eating your seed corn.

The dumb fuck, anti-intellectual, knuckle-dragging, bible thumping horse's asses leading the GOP aren't qualified to judge a worthy science project, but they sure as hell ought to know that their even dumber followers are even less qualified.

This is not about the budget. This is about creating the perception of being tough by finding some projects that very few non-scientists can understand, and railing against it. Damn the consequences!

I'll bet Sarah Palin will find some research on fruit flies and try to gut that.

Jebus but these fuckers are stoopid!

Re:Cut YouCut

[presidenteloco]

Or....
Haven't you heard the expression "He who dies with the most debt wins!"

For in-debt superpowers, you could go with... Let's get into the maximum amount of international debt possible so we can
keep consuming all this stuff.

Then, since we used that borrowed money to buy military toys for the boys,
we'll just invade the hell out of anyone who complains when we welch on paying it back.

That too, strangely, seems like a republican strategy.