No good scientist will put such a vulgarity as money before the science he pursues. To do this would be to skew one's data selectively; this of course would never produce true results so a decent conclusion could be drawn. I don't care WHAT he did after the 9-11 crisis; THIS is utterly STUPID, and I'm voting for whoever runs next.

Maybe it will be Ani....

No offense to Republicans here, but this man is a puppet for the Republican party. He does as he's told and follows the Republican way, which is smaller government. What you republians fail to see is that in this day and age smaller government will KILL us.

China will have 100 nukes pointed our way by 2015, and you wanna go all the way back to Pre World War 2 and try to win something. It's Bush's tax cut that put us where we are today, he didn't expect a war, but he got one, and because of his tax cut we have to cut things like NASA. Why NASA? It's our only hope for humanity to colonize the universe and survive the death of this earth.

Ani, you're saying "no offense", but you're saying some very insulting things and I feel obligated to defend my views and point out that there IS another side to this story.

I'm as much in favor of good science as anyone. I plan to make science my career in fact. And I see nothing wrong with making scientists accountable for the money they spend on research--especially if taxpayers are paying for it.

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Excuse me, but aren't our dear Democrats the ones trying to take us back to pre-World War II? Didn't Clinton try to CUT defense spending? Wasn't Clinton the one who REFUSED to get Osama while he was within our reach?!!

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Uh, no. Bush was cutting the Navy from the time he came into office. The war Bush is fighting right now is with Clinton's military, the one he built. The reason he didn't get bin Laden when he had the chance is obvious, he didn't have the political backing, and republicans along with the press would have accused him of starting something the Islamic nations that shouldn't have been started, and more backlash would occur when attacks were made by terrorists to retaliate, because security was so relaxed.

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I'm as much in favor of good science as anyone. I plan to make science my career in fact. And I see nothing wrong with making scientists accountable for the money they spend on research--especially if taxpayers are paying for it.

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Sure, scientists should be accountable for the money they spend, especially if its tax money, but science isn't cheap. NASA currently gets less than congress awarded the 9/11 victims. Why should the space program, the only program which insures the existance of humanity when the earth dies, or when an asteroid threatens the planet, be the program that is always cut?