Do I support this budget, you ask? Absolutely not. From the perspective of a scientist, this budget is capitulation.
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It says, "the USA will no longer be a leader in scientific research". If we cut research investments here,
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we will create fewer new industries. We will create fewer new jobs. We will solve fewer environmental and health problems
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that have direct impact on people's quality of life. But research won't stop -- it will just move elsewhere. The Chinese
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and the Indians and the Europeans will be happy to take our research leadership from us. What the USA needs now is the opposite
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of science denial. We need a climate change moon shot. If we're going to continue to live on this planet the way we have,
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we're going to need to engineer our own environment so we can keep growing crops, feeding people, inhabiting our cities.
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The worst thing about this budget is that it is fundamentally backward-looking and negative.
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I never knew how much I could "hate" before Trump became POTUS.
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a 20% decrease in funding for NCI would be devistating to childhood cancer research.... kids only get 4% of NCI now
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We're all going to be affected... by EPA cuts. And cuts to education. And cuts to Medicaid and Planned Parenthood. And to the Arts.
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the thought of elderly folk and poor kids losing Precious meals should affect everyone directly.
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