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Obama Budget Asks For 1% Boost In Research
sciencehabit sends this excerpt from ScienceInsider:
"One of the big three research agencies appears to be lagging behind its doubling peers in the president's 2013 budget request released this morning. The $4.9 billion budget of the Department of Energy's Office of Science would rise by 2.4%, to $5 billion. In contrast, the National Science Foundation would receive a nearly 5% boost, to $7.37 billion, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology a hike of 13%, to $860 million. These three agencies were originally singled by President George W. Bush in 2006 for a 10-year budget doubling, a promise that President Barack Obama and Congress have repeatedly endorsed despite the current tough economic times. ... Obama is
asking for a 1% increase in overall federal spending on research, to $140 billion. Within that total, the White House seeks a similar 1% hike in the $30 billion devoted to basic research."
Cutting defense spending and fixing the tax laws can't produce enough money to balance the budget.
How do you sleep at night when we've seen this exact policy from the GOP for the last 4-6 years.
Clearly stated by Senate Minority Leader McConnell (KY):
"Our number one priority is to make Obama a one term President."
It really doesn't get much clearer than that.
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
Did it ever occur to you that many women are raped? Let's just suppose for a moment that men could get pregnant, you for instance. Some jerk manages to boink you and now you are a pregnasaur because you couldn't afford the morning after pill. Worse, you also now have a designer STD able to give it to the baby your friendly local Catholic Church demands you have. Your life as you know it is over. Welcome to the horror that many women live with.