What is your point man? Can you state simply? Is it that cutting funding for "science" is bad, without exception?
There is no bad cutting or good cutting, there's only politics. Meaning, an argument for what make some problems more important or worthwhile is not an apolitical argument, it's an argument of how other people should live.
As in, you don't get to conclude that you're obviously right and they're obviously wrong.
And about the "good/bad cutting", I think it only mean in relative terms, because funds are not infinite...