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Johonny

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4. The Pentagon I think see cuts coming like everyone else

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 06:14 PM

Jul 2012

and next years budgets are up in the air on much of the science projects funded through the Pentagon. The war budget is probably ok, so it is the science that the Pentagon supports that will get cut.

A lot of science is directly/indirectly lumped in to the vast industrial/military complex argument and it is the science part that gets cut first

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Cuts Loom for U.S. Science [View all] xchrom Jul 2012 OP

If they want to decrease the deficit they MIGHT consider raising taxes and growing the economy nt Vincardog Jul 2012 #1

It just never occurs to them to cut the Pentagon Warpy Jul 2012 #2

Even gently polishing the Pentagon would probably free up enough to triple science funding. (nt) Posteritatis Jul 2012 #3

The Pentagon I think see cuts coming like everyone else Johonny Jul 2012 #4