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Comment Re:Scientific research never got anyone anything (Score 3, Insightful) 225

The budget is driven by non-defense spending - entitlements - which consume nearly every dollar in Federal Revenue that DC receives.

When you say entitlement, it evokes a bunch of money-grubbing welfare queens who have more and more children to increase their federal benefit. The truth is that the largest portion of the budget (24%) is social security, which isn't a government handout - it is funded by working taxpayers who have paid into the system for their whole lives.

Actually, social security isn't what you think it is. You have no right to anything in the fund, and your deposits are simply another tax to provide a wealth transfer. The funds paid in - especially today - simply do not cover outgoing expenses. What you pay in today covers about 80% of the money for other people - and it's a dropping percentage.

Comment Re:Electrostatic Inertial Confinement Fusion (Score 1) 225

We should be pursuing the legacy of Robert Brusard

No we shouldn't. We understand the physics of those devices very well. They will aren't an energy source period.

You may understand the physics of the devices very well; the problem is none of us understand the English you're trying to speak, so we just tune you out...

Comment Re:Scientific research never got anyone anything (Score 5, Informative) 225

It actually is. "Defense bears 50 percent of sequestration’s reductions under the law, even though it is less than one-fifth of the budget. Entitlements, which make up nearly two-thirds of the budget, bear only 18 percent of the sequester." The budget is driven by non-defense spending - entitlements - which consume nearly every dollar in Federal Revenue that DC receives.

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