The problem is in tech funding (Score 1)

Government funding (where some of the most advanced research takes place) for technology these days is crap. All our money is being sent to Iraq, rather than research.

My Dad is an engineer that contracts for several organizations, one of them is the government. Recently hes been running around like a madman trying to get money to fund research.

When the democrats were in power and there was no war, there was plenty of money, such is not the case anymore.