Funding for R&D in the US

@mike69 said
You’re wrong, but it’s easy to understand because you agree with the stupidity a lot of money has been spent on and given away. You don’t want to see truth so you don’t look, along with your liberal news sources that are pathetic and twist it. Your lied to and blinded with hate.

You mean like the 21 MILLION spent transporting 34 prisoners to Guantanamo?
What about the FOUR HUNDRED MILLION dollar contract for a bunch of worthless Cybertrucks the government signed with Musk?
Why can't Trumpites go after the huge spending on the military budget? Near a trillion dollars and we all hear about the ten thousand dollar toilet seats and such.
But instead they want to cut near a TRILLION dollars off Medicaid, where MILLIONS depend on that insurance.
So when it comes to things people really need, SCREW THEM, we will do tax cuts for our billionaire buddies.
THAT is the bottom line and Musk LIED about how much they supposedly saved, at one point they said 18 BILLION saved, oops, sorry, meant 18 million......

@AverageJoe1 said
No, no, no.....you can hardly say that the pitiful guy with a $10,000 car loan to pay off has the same rights to treasury money as does the college graduate.
College graduates have rights to treasury money to pay off their tuition.
..........follow me here..............
Guy with car loan has no rights to treasury money to pay off HIS loan.

Tell us how you figure the two debtors have the same rights.

Guy with a car loan can also get a loan to go to college, same as the college graduate. The rights of the two individuals are the same. 😆

The loans are NOT all the same. Different loans have different terms and are owed to different people. A credit card and a mortgage are different. See? Easy peasy. 😆

@sonhouse said
You mean like the 21 MILLION spent transporting 34 prisoners to Guantanamo?
What about the FOUR HUNDRED MILLION dollar contract for a bunch of worthless Cybertrucks the government signed with Musk?
Why can't Trumpites go after the huge spending on the military budget? Near a trillion dollars and we all hear about the ten thousand dollar toilet seats and such.
But instead ...[text shortened]... they supposedly saved, at one point they said 18 BILLION saved, oops, sorry, meant 18 million......

You’re about goofy, and I don’t care to hear what your fake Trump hate filled news puts out. Kind of like the mayor that got arrested and the activist Congress people who were spewing hate to the crowds all day beforehand. The video I put up for you showed the whole scene from fox and it was clear. I went to msnbc fake news and they had another goofy guest talking about how bad and wrong it was. They then put their supporting video up and it was only a tiny square zoomed in only showing their heads while cutting out the whole scene showing what really happened and this type of thing is constant.

@mike69 said
You’re about goofy, and I don’t care to hear what your fake Trump hate filled news puts out. Kind of like the mayor that got arrested and the activist Congress people who were spewing hate to the crowds all day beforehand. The video I put up for you showed the whole scene from fox and it was clear. I went to msnbc fake news and they had another goofy guest talking about ho ...[text shortened]... s while cutting out the whole scene showing what really happened and this type of thing is constant.

Right. 400 million dollar cybertruck contract is fake.

https://democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2025/3/meeks-moskowitz-call-on-rubio-to-explain-400-million-in-contracts-to-elon-musk-s-tesla

Yep, those cursed democrats lying again. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS.

And OF COURSE that new sky palace is just a loan, no grift involved there, right?
They would NEVER expect tit for tat would they? Just give away near half a billion out of the goodness of their hearts.

@spruce112358 said
Guy with a car loan can also get a loan to go to college, same as the college graduate. The rights of the two individuals are the same. 😆

The loans are NOT all the same. Different loans have different terms and are owed to different people. A credit card and a mortgage are different. See? Easy peasy. 😆

No I don’t. King of double talk. You lose cred here.
Govt gives money to one person, but not to another? Not equal. What these people do with the money is not the issue, it is that the government gives them the money which is step one. Granted it may go through a system to be applied to car loan or government loan.

Maybe you can get your sidekick Susie to jump in here and explain it, because no one on this form would get your word salad. You say nothing.

@sonhouse said
Right. 400 million dollar cybertruck contract is fake.

https://democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2025/3/meeks-moskowitz-call-on-rubio-to-explain-400-million-in-contracts-to-elon-musk-s-tesla

Yep, those cursed democrats lying again. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS.

And OF COURSE that new sky palace is just a loan, no grift involved there, right?
They would NEVER expect tit for tat would they? Just give away near half a billion out of the goodness of their hearts.

Was that a military contract, and right, your fake news isn’t biased, full of lies and hate filled towards Trump and his supporters. He’s the most transparent president we’ve had, of course that would mean you would have to actually watch truth and you and your party can’t handle that, can you? All hate 24~7 does that even seem logical, tell me something positive about him.

@mike69 said
You’re wrong, but it’s easy to understand because you agree with the stupidity a lot of money has been spent on and given away. You don’t want to see truth so you don’t look, along with your liberal news sources that are pathetic and twist it. Your lied to and blinded with hate.

More "cancel culture" from you.

Thanks for nothing.

@mike69 said
Was that a military contract, and right, your fake news isn’t biased, full of lies and hate filled towards Trump and his supporters. He’s the most transparent president we’ve had, of course that would mean you would have to actually watch truth and you and your party can’t handle that, can you? All hate 24~7 does that even seem logical, tell me something positive about him.

They are ruining the country.

Deny THAT.

@mike69 said
Was that a military contract, and right, your fake news isn’t biased, full of lies and hate filled towards Trump and his supporters. He’s the most transparent president we’ve had, of course that would mean you would have to actually watch truth and you and your party can’t handle that, can you? All hate 24~7 does that even seem logical, tell me something positive about him.

The only positive thing I can think about with Trump is within 20 years he will probably be dead. Of course then we have to deal with the kids grifting.
Will they be able to compete with a 400 million dollar flying palace?
Maybe a new Don JR Trump tower in Qatar? you know, to match the one for daddy?

@Mott-The-Hoople said
its right there in the article

"and recognize that basic research isn’t a federal handout to help sustain academia. "

To help academia. Right there in the article. That funding MIGHT, just MIGHT be to promote scientific advances. But maybe I am wrong, that money maybe is REALLY used so Harvard deans can get Rolls Royces, I mean now that Trump has cut the tariff on those cars, surely they will be bought up by all those ultra rich deans now with all that federal academia grift money.........

@wildgrass said
From a Republican senator:
[quote]We should follow two steps: One, policymakers must sufficiently fund federal investment in basic and applied science research as part of the annual congressional appropriations process. The United States’ biotechnology innovators, our electronics wizards and our military leaders uniformly point to the importance of a strong science-and-tec ...[text shortened]...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/24/research-development-china-national-security/

Scientists are leaving the US in fairly big numbers after funding has been left uncertain. Positions in Denmark and Switzerland (and in other places, I'm sure) are having record applications and are filled very fast these days. What I'm hearing is that no one trusts their funding even if they still have it after the latest Trump cuts.

The EU will have a huge upside from this in the years to come but, of course, most Trump faithful will be dead when the bigger effects hit the US society.

@Suzianne said
They are ruining the country.

Deny THAT.

You and those like you are running the country, fact.

@Suzianne said
More "cancel culture" from you.

Thanks for nothing.

Do you think advancing trans around the world is money well spent? It’s just one example.

@Lundos said
Scientists are leaving the US in fairly big numbers after funding has been left uncertain. Positions in Denmark and Switzerland (and in other places, I'm sure) are having record applications and are filled very fast these days. What I'm hearing is that no one trusts their funding even if they still have it after the latest Trump cuts.

The EU will have a huge upside from th ...[text shortened]... to come but, of course, most Trump faithful will be dead when the bigger effects hit the US society.

Really we fund a very large portion of all r&d, maybe the places their going should actually pay their part.

@mike69 said
Really we fund a very large portion of all r&d, maybe the places their going should actually pay their part.

Try to explain to us how Trump can be so freaking stupid that everything he touches, he gets wrong? The man has bankrupted casinos, for God's sake.

Yet you think he's the answer to all our problems. Ass-kissers don't save the world. They just don't. And yet all you people are fooled by the biggest liar on the planet.