RustyShackleford
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-How about you read the USA Today article first off, because your entire argument just seems to be red herrings. Your entire argument is bomb sniffing elephants sounds ridiculous, so let us take that at face value without an ounce of research.Bomb sniffing mice sound ridiculous too, by yeah they work, and by all accounts have worked well. But let's get outraged over a headline. Yeah ok
-Then you take 50K (don't prove it is wasteful just assume it) and multiply it by "all these wasteful government" government programs (which you have no way of quantifying) and think that is proof of your point. When really it isn't even good evidence.
Let us say we do that? Let us say there are 100,000 "wasteful" programs just like this. You know how much cost in tax dollars?What, 5 billion. Yet you excuse Trump's 915 million like it was nothing and downplayed 17 billion when it came to the IRS being underfunded. Money only seems to matter when it fits your argument.
The you throw out another priorities red herring. Like anyone is arguing that research grants should be prioritized over social welfare programs. If you can predict my actions so much, you really think I would argue that is a good idea. But that's find, it since you want to take me on this low key bonus guilt trip, i feel ok shooting your messenger. (which I will do in about 20 seconds)
I'm not denying there is wasteful government spending, NOT AT ALL, I just pointed out your post was silly. Which it was, for many reasons. And you just listing more **** like that is silly. Because government there is so many things, wasteful and necessary that are spent out of a government grant.
And the fact of the matter, tons of researchers rely on government grants to fund things the private sector won't. Because they don't see a money making opportunity
------But using Jon McCain is interesting especially when speaking to me about priorities, about feeding the poor. Isn't Jon McCain the same dude that supports cut after cut to things like TANF and food stamps every chance he gets?. Yet will want the United States to engage in any and every foreign conflict they can. He wants us to go to Iraq, stay there after it becomes a cluster****, we have to go fight ISIS overseas, Iran is a constant threat, and we should have went to Ukraine to check Putin. Waging war is probably the most wasteful things the government does, and McCain is always for it.
And this is the man that is going to lecture people on wasteful spending!? And this is the man that wants America to get its priorities straight because it uses some of its budget for research.
I mean god forbid the Federal government gives money to researches, research that might lead to products that help the nation in the future. Not like that has ever worked out for the public's benefit. Not like something like those programs could lead to something as important as the modern internet getting inve............oh yeah, yeah, it did.
Funny how some of these smaller research grants work sometimes.
Yeah small research grants like my boy whom just got a 5k Federal Grant to produce music solely cause of his Native American ancestry. He bought all this DJ equipment and got reimbursed... guess where he's using this tax funded equipment at? At the Strip Club where he has a gig at...
What is this even suppose to prove?
