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Up To 1000 NIH Investigators Dropped Out Last Year
sciencehabit writes "New data show that after remaining more or less steady for a decade, the number of investigators with National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding dropped sharply last year by at least 500 researchers and as many as 1000. Although not a big surprise—it came the same year that NIH's budget took a 5% cut—the decline suggests that a long-anticipated contraction in the number of labs supported by NIH may have finally begun."
Anytime someone says, "stop your partisan bullshit,' you can be damned sure a solid stream of partisan bullshit is about to follow.
This.
Just the other day someone tried to argue to me that the sad state of the economy was the fault of Libertarians. And of course I replied (paraphrase) "Ahem... it wasn't Libertarians who made the laws, it was the Democrats."
For 5 years now, going on 6, Democrats have solidly controlled spending, and monetary and fiscal policy. Despite all the Democrat bitching about Republicans, the Democrats haven't been blocked for long over any of their larger spending or fiscal policy issues.
And you can see the result. Obama and friends have been spending your children's livelihood away, while at the same time working to deprive them of jobs.
Look at the facts: jobs are up a bit since the 2009 low... but really not that much. Even with that, many of the "buffer" of people who stopped looking for work, are now starting to look again, which keeps even the official unemployment numbers pretty high. And on top of that, inflation is high again. And no surprise, since it was the inevitable result of Obama's (and the Fed's) monetary policy since 2008.
(Before anybody starts arguing with me about inflation: if you're a Democrat, the official bottom line is that minimum wage hikes follow inflation, rather than lead them, right? Isn't that official Democrat dogma? That minimum wage hikes don't cause inflation? Well, if that's so, then tell me: why is Obama making noises about raising minimum wages to $10.10, when it was raised to $7.25 only about 5 years ago? That's 39% in just 5 years... that's HUGE. And if you don't believe that logic -- which is your own party's logic -- then just take a look at your grocery bill.)
What we have is 70s stagflation all over again. What the government did about it THEN didn't help... and they can't even do that now because the Fed doesn't have room to do more "Quantitative Easing" or lowering of interest rates!
Thanks, Obama and Democrats. I'll be sure to tell the children who was in charge.