Republicans say no to scientific research:scientists to join unemployed

[stray cat]

Republican budget plans mean scientific researchers will be joining the unemployed. The cuts include biomedical research. I wonder if Bush thinks scientists should go back to school and get an education for job retraining. Proposed cuts cover anything good for working Americans and even include Bush's Medicare drug plan. He proposed that only long enough to get re-elected. The boy king giveth and the king taketh away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/politics/09budget1.html

"For the current fiscal year, Congress cut the budget of the National Science Foundation by about 2 percent, to $5.47 billion, and the White House Office of Management and Budget initially proposed a further cut of about 5 percent for 2006. But the agency appealed, with support from allies like Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri, and the White House decided to propose a flat budget, instead of cuts.

¶The White House budget office initially sought a small cut at the National Institutes of Health, which received an appropriation of $28.4 billion for the current fiscal year. But after an appeal by Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, the White House agreed to propose a small increase, less than 2 percent, which would not be enough to keep pace with the rising costs of biomedical research"