Whiskey coffee FTW

Wine is good for you unless it’s not…

Lots of research needs to die….

IF YOU WANT TO FUND IT.

SEND IN YOUR MONEY.

Exactly. How's the age old food pyramid doing these days?

Everything has to be cut.

And this study didn’t cost a billion dollars to complete.

So all this research is so secretive that the payments categorization code is left blank? Cancel it all, every single bit of it.

You can't cut any govt. spending without someone crying out about some perceived negative impact. Govt. spending has a life of its own and is almost impossible to kill off. Once started it never ends. We have to rip the band aid off, yes there will be pain, but in the end, it will work out for the best.

How does one eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
The USAID was the first, because it was the most obvious fraud and graft.

Yeah for real
What I have seen at 2 universities was serious research, backed up by data, & performed by people who really care

Never imagined I would be exposed to this world

36 trillion in debt, now spending over one trillion on interest payments per year on the national debt (more than we spend on defense). We need to take larger bites.

Just say you don't know but today is very windy.

Who gets to decide what research is warranted and what is frivolous?? Some government agency..?? If so which one, who staffs it, what are their credentials/backgrounds??
No doubt there are some very questionable research projects being funded. But lets assume there is a research project to develop a better birth control technology ( yeah I can hear the smarta** comments on this already:) and the department in charge of funding research is headed by someone who does not believe in any kind of birth control. How's that going to play out?? 90% of us would support this funding but it is stopped by one person due to their beliefs. What controls are going to placed on the department overseeing funding to insure it is done fairly and in society's best interests. Pick a disease...cancer, alzhiemer's parkinson's, etc. who decides to fund or not fund these areas of needed research??

Sure this is hypothetical but declaring all funding to be wasteful and stopping everything is counter productive for society and not in our best long term interests.

How about pharma funding their own research for stuff like that. Rather than spend their money on political donations. And if the government is gonna fund research for pharma is should be under a contractual situation that any research that leads to medications hitting the market the revenue/profits are returned to the government until the grant/loan is paid back. Thats how they handled the banking crisis.

Stop it all and then decide what projects are truly beneficial. If you study everything then someone will defend the spending, or some politician will defend it as it is pork for their district. This is why we are 34 trillion in debt. If we have a national debt crisis that will be one way to end the many wasteful spending programs.