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'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."
How about a poll, and the voters decide if the scumbag politician in question gets his/her head chopped off? I am willing to bet, at a $1.00 per vote, we could balance the budget and get rid of the national debt.
He must be, because all the Mexican's are busy digging tunnels under their fence with the US...
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
I guess we could do without cow fart studies and research into why men like nakkid women.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
How about the rest of it:
First, we will take a look at the National Science Foundation (NSF) - Congress created the NSF in 1950 to promote the progress of science. For this purpose, NSF makes more than 10,000 new grant awards annually, many of these grants fund worthy research in the hard sciences. Recently, however NSF has funded some more questionable projects - $750,000 to develop computer models to analyze the on-field contributions of soccer players and $1.2 million to model the sound of objects breaking for use by the video game industry. Help us identify grants that are wasteful or that you don't think are a good use of taxpayer dollars.
Do you really want your tax dollars going toward research for Soccer (Football everywhere else in the world) and video game sounds?
Oh wait. We are bashing Republicans here. Down with those ignorant Christian rednecks!
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