How Sequestration Will Affect Federal Research Agencies

carmendrahl writes "Unless Congress and the White House act before March 1, the automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester will kick in. And federal agencies are bracing for the fiscal impact. Federal agencies and the White House are releasing details about how these cuts will affect their operations. If the cuts take effect, expect fewer inspections to the food supply, cuts to programs that support cleanups at former nuclear plants, and plenty of researcher layoffs, among other things."

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Re:Same old same old

[shilly]

This is not insightful. It's the sodding cause of the crisis. Ideological fucktards like this vote in ideological fucktard Teapartiers. These Teapartiers then say "We need to force these agencies to cut paper-pushers and not the front line" and so they implement a rule requiring across-the-board cuts with no discretion to apply more of the cut to one project or department than another. And what is the result of that? Do the fucktards who voted in the Teaparty fucktards now say "hurray for the teapartiers? At last we get to cut paper-pushers and not just frontline staff". As Mr Fucktard here shows, no they do not. Because their view was nothing to do with facts in the first place, and was all to do with masturbation for what passes for their minds. Of course, the unintended consequence is that many programs are required to become sub-scale, ie their output per dollar input falls due to lumpy scale curves with significant semi-variable and fixed costs. And all to satisfy a bunch of fucktards who have to be reminded to only use one side of the paper to wipe and *still* walk out the bathroom with shit on their fingers.