Congress does everything possible to save military spending. But, scientific research? The stuff that insures our future, that solves current problems, and makes the US and A a magnet for the best and the brightest?
The 2014 budget for science and research will be lower than what we spent in 2012.
What is worse is the positive signal that the WH is sending on this shyte.
From the church of ineffable stupidity:
The omnibus appropriations bill put together by House Appropriations Chair Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) and Senate Appropriations Chair Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) sets funding for the National Institutes of Health at $29.934 billion for the next year. That represents a $1 billion increase from where NIH's funding levels stood in 2013, after sequestration, transfers and the re-programming of funds affected the agency.
But the NIH budget target falls short of what both the White House and Senate Democrats wanted. House Democrats said it was $714 million less than "the 2013 enacted level" of $30.648 billion. According to the NIH's own numbers, meanwhile, it is approximately $950 million less than its 2012 level. In fact, the number is lower than during President Barack Obama’s first year in office and, when adjusted for inflation, is lower than it was in every year but the first of the George W. Bush administration.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
It is bad enough that our high skules and grade skules suffer from political-religious attacks like creationism and intel design. It is worse that so many in congress hate science and misunderstand how it works. But worst of all, attacking adequate funding of science research is both insane and inane, in both the short and long terms.
We drive away the best and brightest. We lose our edge in cutting edge technologies. And our future will be more religious than rational - the worst cut of all.