Destroy science, destroy education, destroy USAID, and destroy all the remarkable things that make America respected worldwide so that billionaires who hate the country that made them exceptionally rich can have more tax cuts and plunder the Treasury.
IMPO, it's an amped up version of the game played with Congress but at a much more catastrophic scale. Back then, the Trump administration proposed 20-30% cuts and were ignored. This time, propose 66% and perhaps get a 20% cut. At least that's my reading. https://bsky.app/profile/archstreet.bsky.social/post/3lawwzwxqvk2t
Traditionally, funding for NSF and science overall has followed the arc of the domestic discretionary topline. When domestic discretionary budgets did well, science did well, and vice versa. However we may be seeing a decoupling of this historical trend, still unclear.
Milton Friedman and later the Courts told private companies that they must focus on shareholder value.
Research often leads to dry holes and is very expensive=bad for shareholders value.
So Federal Government steps in funds, coordinates decades of productive research that creates modernity. &🌬️
Trump wants to takedown America's economy for Putins' happiness, while he pilfers everything he can from the American people.
TRUMP IS A THIEF AND A TRAITOR
LOCK HIM UP
Has the AI and crypto czar convinced the President that AI is at the stage where it can replace all the scientists, cure cancer, and fix climate change? Or that the only way to get it there and beat China at the modern day “Sputnik” is to let ‘er rip? Nothing else makes any sense.
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Research often leads to dry holes and is very expensive=bad for shareholders value.
So Federal Government steps in funds, coordinates decades of productive research that creates modernity. &🌬️
And by other nations, I mean China.
Bluesky, can you institute an angry-face emoji?
TRUMP IS A THIEF AND A TRAITOR
LOCK HIM UP