US Trump Budget: Kills Science, Plumps Military/DHS, Sinks US Prospects Further
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-2... The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has released a budget "blueprint" which outlines substantial cuts in both basic research and applied technology funding. The proposal includes a whopping 18% reduction in National Institutes of Health medical research. NIH does get a new $500 million fund to track emerging infectious agents like Zika in the U.S., but loses its funding to monitor those agents overseas. The Department of Energy's research programs also get an 18% cut in research, potentially affecting basic physics research, high energy physics, fusion research, and supercomputing. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) gets the ax, as does the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program, which enabled Tesla to manufacture its Model S sedan. EPA loses all climate research funding, and about half the research funding targeted at human health impacts of pollution. The Energy Star program is eliminated; Superfund funding is drastically reduced. The Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes cleanup programs are also eliminated, as is all screening of pesticides for endocrine disruption. In the Department of Commerce, Sea Grant is eliminated, along with all coastal zone research funding. Existing weather satellites GOES and JPSS continue funding, but JPSS-3 and -4 appear to be getting the ax. Support for transfer of federally funded research and technology to small and mid-sized manufacturers is eliminated. NASA gets a slight trim, and a new focus on deep space exploration paid for by an elimination of Earth Science programs. You can read more about this "blueprint" in Nature, Science, and the Washington Post, which broke the story. The Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and Agriculture Department took the hardest hits, while the Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Veterans Affairs have seen their budgets grow.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:04:36 -0400 grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-2...
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has released a budget "blueprint" which outlines substantial cuts in both basic research and applied technology funding.
that would be great!! if it was true - it most likely isn't.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:39 PM, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
that would be great!! if it was true - it most likely isn't.
The odds of getting any government to make a substantial cut in anything other than your paycheck, before getting rid of said government, are pretty slim.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:03:28AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:39 PM, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
that would be great!! if it was true - it most likely isn't.
The odds of getting any government to make a substantial cut in anything other than your paycheck, before getting rid of said government, are pretty slim.
Here lieth ye olde fundeamental probleme withe governement. Is there a solution (in the context of government, since most folk keep clamouring for more govt issued K-Y) ?
On Mar 17, 2017, at 12:03 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:39 PM, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote: that would be great!! if it was true - it most likely isn't.
The odds of getting any government to make a substantial cut in anything other than your paycheck, before getting rid of said government, are pretty slim.
Yeah, this proposed budget doesn't hit "entitlements" (poor people) nearly hard enough for the republican base, and of course the democrats won't support anything from Trump and his cohort of nazis. Despite the moronic fantasies of reactionary monarchist fantasists like James Donald, this is not Trump on his way to becoming "King Trump" or "Trump playing 4d chess"... he's just an incompetent hack, like most politicians, except people really fucking hate him. Fuck Trump and fuck the USA.
On 2017-03-17 21:41, John Newman wrote:
Despite the moronic fantasies of reactionary monarchist fantasists like James Donald, this is not Trump on his way to becoming "King Trump" or "Trump playing 4d chess"... he's just an incompetent hack, like most politicians, except people really fucking hate him.
If he is just an incompetent hack, how come he has a hot wife, a flying palace with a gold plated bathroom, and the presidency? I bet money that he would win the nomination and then I bet money he would win the presidency. Everything he did was what I expected him to do in order to win, and it worked. You cannot understand how he won, because your hatred blinds you and makes you ignorant. This budget does not defund science. It does not defund the poor. It defunds the left - thereby diminishing the capability of the left to resist further defunding. But because you have this fantasy that the left is a grassroots popular movement, rather than the arrogance of power, you cannot see what he is doing, and will not understand even when people explain it to you.
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:17:28 +1000 "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
This budget does not defund science.
you mean 'science' (or government pseudo science) and no, of course it doesn't.
It does not defund the poor.
the americunt government-oligarchy is obviosly based on buying votes. They can't stop paying their 'poor' clients. trump is nothing abut an americunt fascist who is only going to make the state even bigger.
It defunds the left -
stupid lie - then again, the only thing that donald really does well is lying. But no, let me correct that. His lies are very stupid. He's not a good liar, he's just a prolific liar.
On 03/17/2017 07:41 AM, John Newman wrote:
On Mar 17, 2017, at 12:03 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:39 PM, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote: that would be great!! if it was true - it most likely isn't.
The odds of getting any government to make a substantial cut in anything other than your paycheck, before getting rid of said government, are pretty slim.
Yeah, this proposed budget doesn't hit "entitlements" (poor people) nearly hard enough for the republican base, and of course the democrats won't support anything from Trump and his cohort of nazis.
Despite the moronic fantasies of reactionary monarchist fantasists like James Donald, this is not Trump on his way to becoming "King Trump" or "Trump playing 4d chess"... he's just an incompetent hack, like most politicians, except people really fucking hate him.
Fuck Trump and fuck the USA.
At least Trump Jr (Geert Wilders) lost his election. We have something to celebrate !
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