[deadrock]

NOT THE DONUTS! HAVE YOU GONE INSANE! :)

[NormsRevenge]

The National Science Foundation, a 6.9 billion dollar federal agency that disperses grants to researchers, ..

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6.9 BILLION ??

“grants to researchers”. LOLOL

I’m gonna have a doughnut for that one..

[from occupied ga]

For example, hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent each month on a NASA program to return Americans to the moon

Kill it!! Drive a stake through its heart, cut off its head and bury the body at a crossroads. Although if Reid, Pelosi , and 0bama were going ...

[Red Badger]

Moochelle should be all over this!.....................

[kittymyrib]

Shut it down. NASA is a frill a bankrupt nation can no longer afford.

[Brett66]

The GISS needs lots of attention from the budget axe, 100% attention!

[Ben Mugged]

Think a moment about what you are killing. These programs support the technical traction this country has struggled over 50 years to build. This technical and engineering base have developed many products currently supporting the US economy. Now in a fit of spendthrift you are going to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Better think carefully.

[dalebert]

any mention of congressmen’s pork? any cutting of research of why a faces west to take a leak? no way

[Ronald_Magnus]

Just don't deprive the cops. A happy cop is a good cop.

[Svartalfiar]

"I am beginning to think it is a very sloppy operation out there," said Congressman Frank Wolf, the Republican chair of the subcommittee.

And it took you this long? Seriously?

[righttackle44]

No money spent on doughnuts is ever wasted.

[jagusafr]

Good. Maybe the USAF JAG Corps will cancel the annual Keystone Leadership Summit this year. Lots of money spent on too much of the same old thing, year after year.

Colonel, USAFR

[olezip]

For example, hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent each month on a NASA program to return Americans to the moon, even though the US space agency, Congress and President Barack Obama have agreed not to proceed with it.

Old, rundown buildings are draining 300 million dollars a year from NASA in repair costs alone, and at least one space telescope project has run billions over budget, more than four times initial estimates.

There is a correlation between investment in R&D and improvements in technology. I would be very careful in further eroding the capabilities of NASA. The Hubble Telescope is costly but it has advanced our knowledge of the universe a hundredfold.

We should be investing 10% of GDP in R&D, but we are at less than one quarter of 1%. Be careful lest you wipe out any hope for the next generations of Americans; we already have enslaved our grandchildren with debt.

Better to get rid of UN, HUD, EPA, NPR, and many, many other useless, unproductive programs, than to wipe out our future by further degrading investment in R&D.

[Nonstatist]

For example, hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent each month on a NASA program to return Americans to the moon, even though the US space agency, Congress and President Barack Obama have agreed not to proceed with it.

Oh, naturally. Lets hack up NASA and turn whats left of it into Muslim outreach and elementary school propaganda, and lets keep intact the enormous runup in the rest of the budget which is just lathered in pork and BS, like Dept of Commerce, Education, Agriculture, HUD, and so on.

Low hanging fruit where you dont have to fight the huge collection of welfare and unionized dependents... Oh, and note that it was Obambi who slashed off a trip to the moon, not Congress. Thanks for the propaganda missive, Yahoo.

[Graybeard58]

at least one space telescope project has run billions over budget, more than four times initial estimates.

And yet the Hubble Space Telescope has been out there doing the job it was designed for, since 1990.

[domeika]

If IsSocial(Program) Then
  Program.Delete
Else
  Program.Evaluate
End IF

Maybe when people have had enough, it will be that simple....again.
(Ok, so I'm making up my own programming constructs...sue me.)