Trump budget cuts NSF by 11%
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Where is fundamental research and development to be done? and who will fund it? Federal research and development funds have a disproportionate impact on economic growth. Research and development is a great investment.
What does the Administration expect to gain from their war on science?
The NY times article on Trump's budget shows that essentially every single budget entry gets heavily slashed, with the notable exceptions of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/15/us/politics/t...
It's disingenuous to complain that a budget is anti-something for cutting spending on a specific item when it heavily slashes every single entry, with the sole exception of three spending items.
In fact, you're even patently wrong in your claims as Defense spending also includes a myriad of research projects,both in hard sciences and technology, and Trump ramped up defense spending by a whopping 10% in a budget which is already, by far, the highest in the world.
If you really want to disseminate anti-Trump propaganda on social media, first you need to cut the bullshit. For those of us who are here for the tech stuff and don't care about US politics, your kind of whiny demagoguery posts are becoming an effective techie repellent.
>The NY times article on Trump's budget shows that essentially every single budget entry gets heavily slashed, with the notable exceptions of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs.
which supports my point. Science research spending is cut significantly across the board; other spending is cut as well. Just because spending cuts are "across the board" does not mean it is a good choice or an appropriate allocation of resources. In my opinion, cutting science funding is a bad idea. A massive increase in defense spending does not seem appropriate either.
Your ad hominum comment, "your kind of whiny demagoguery posts are becoming an effective techie repellent" is out of place on HN. Funding of scientific research and development is an important aspect of science and technology and is worthy of discussion here.