Federally funded science research; The financial outlook had fallen far and fast. Congress had long reached across party lines to support government research, for its economic and military rewards and because the distribution of billions of dollars plays well come election time. After rising steadily for decades, federal science financing hit a high point in 2009, in the early days of the Obama administration, as Congress, to stimulate the economy amid the global financial crisis, allocated about $40 billion for basic science. That bipartisan consensus eroded with the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections and the budget battles that followed. Spending on basic research has fallen by roughly a quarter, to $30 billion last year, one of the sharpest declines ever. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/s...privatizing-american-science.html?hpw&rref=us
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Well US military has worked well, thank God; but many of us prefer private sector research.Besided US was founded on a limited gov. With gov controlling everything, that's like national socialists[NAZI Germany ] Look @ how the socialists have screwed UP Detroit, +Venezuala. Spell checker not used; thanks, Fut currents.
Obama Spirals America Down the Socialist Sinkhole http://www.tpnn.com/2014/03/17/obama-spirals-america-down-the-socialist-sinkhole/