America is sacrificing the future

I would rather have read a polemic.

The article doesn't necessarily make a claim. It seems to be getting at something akin to: "Science is important so we shouldn't underfund it. We shouldn't kill science funding to pay for Boomer's retirement. It's not the country's fault that the Boomers pushed for massive government deficits and plundered social security, and now they need it."

I'd rather he have just come out and said it.

This column seems to be claiming that science is underfunded in the US? But it doesn't exactly give evidence for this.