We have GOT TO INCREASE spending on infrastructure, science, and education. We have got to cut spending on nation building in the middle east and bank bail-outs!
We've covered this. Greece spent billions on infrastructure, and ruined their entire economy. China has done the same, and although the economy isn't wrecked like Greece, it's hit a slump. Entire cities built, and no one lives there. Japan has dumped billions into infrastructure, and their economy is still in a now 20 year slump.
Infrastructure is not an automatic benefit to the economy, and clearly that's confirmed by that massive $800 Billion dollar stimulus bill we passed in 2009, and yet here we are still whining about the economy and infrastructure.
If infrastructure was the cure-all you morons claim it is, then why didn't you cure all when you had both houses of congress, and the presidency? We passed your dumb 'borrow to our future bankruptcy' bill.... why didn't you spend it on infrastructure if that was so important?
And education.... we already spend more on education than anyone else. Our students are dumber than countries that spend a fraction on education than we do. Clearly you "blow money on education forever" plan has not worked. It's insanity to continue the same policies we've had for the last 30 years, and think it will magically make it better this time.
Lastly, we spend too much on science as it is, which is why so much science is absolute trash.
There are several key problems with government funded science.
First, government science grants keep professors out of the class room. There is epidemic of student teachers, teachings classes, while the professor is off doing research on grant money.
Second, some professors are not even doing the research either. Some of them spend all their time just writing grants.
Grant Writer Salary Indeed.com
Look at this? We now have "Grant Writer" as a permanent full time position. We have professional "grant writers" who do not teach, or do research. All they do, is figure out how to suck more "science money" out of the government, and a professional grant writer can earn $70,000 just writing grants. That's their whole job.
Ridiculous! And you think science money is a fix for what again? All it's fixed, is giving people a job to do nothing but write grants, a middle class income while producing nothing, on the backs of working people, you demand pay more taxes. Brilliant....
And even the science that is done, is bad science. Even fabricated science.
Independent labs to verify high-profile papers Nature News Comment
There is now a push to test scientific research for validity. Why? Because tons of science today isn't true. They make it up, and publish it.
Why do they do this? Because grant money is limited, and in order to keep the grant, you have to show results. So if you are in the middle of a project, and the grant money runs out... how do you keep your research going? Well you write up a paper, apply for a grant, and 'make up' that you found something justifying your grant research.
How does this pass peer-review? Guess what... all of your 'peer' are guys just like you, trying to justify getting their grant money. You call my paper good... and I'll call your paper good... and we'll both get our government funded scientific research grants.
Fake peer review Scientific journals publish fraudulent plagiarized or nonsense papers.
They are all doing this. Because that's how they get more grant money from the government, so they can stay out of the class room teaching students, and in their private office, letting student teachers and student researchers do the work.
Well done leftists.... good work. Screwing over science and students, and working tax payers, all at the exact same time.
Another example, I just came across. Medical science published. Read the PDF at the bottom.
The article above in Nature, listed this example. This is sickening, and yet I've heard enough other stories, it's not the least bit surprising.
Why A Fake Article Titled Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Was Accepted By 17 Medical Journals Fast Company Business Innovation
17 different medical journals published this article "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs". It starts off having a decent abstract, and by the end, he wrote just jibberish.
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17 Medical journals published that.
This is modern American science today, thanks to your government intervention.
You say, why the heck would that be caused by government funding? This was an example to show how easy it is to have a 'peer-reviewed' crap published in scientific journals. That was jibberish, most are not 'jibberish', but that are no less made up and wrong.
Why do 'scientists' do this? Because then they can have their grant writer, put into the grant, that their research resulted in an article published in a peer-reviewed journal. Which is completely accurate and true. Thus, the grant needs to be renewed or extended, to continue their oh-so-important research. After all, they are getting results.... they have an article in a peer-reviewed journal.
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