Dane Allen wrote on 06/24/13 at 12:58:55:srinath wrote on 06/24/13 at 12:38:06:Yea I can tell you atleast 1 of this list is bogus - TEA or republican or whatever is the anti government version of that propaganda ...
Mellow Mushroom pizza - Its a restaurant chain - there is a looooooong history of grants to private industry, including Nike and Donald Trump ... so that mellow mushroom got a grant is not very relevant ... it also was at a time when republicans dominated DC and of course texas which is always republican -
anyway mellow mushroom is a darned fine pizza chain, and has no drug theme and really surprisingly, does not have drugs in their pizza. If they had a 487k grant, I'm sure they got 1/10 or less than what Donald Trump got.
Cool.
Srinath.
I think the point is that not a single one of them should have gotten taxpayer money to waste in the first place, not who also go to waste it. We need to cancel the whole program!!
And the republicans who are screaming about TEA are the ones who have the biggest hand in it.
I however wont be so quick to judge it and say cancel cancel cancel ... The discovery of telomeres is pretty important for all sorts of ailments and what not, as is the myelin sheaths that was a few years earlier, which was blamed and partly exonerated for various ailments - all via random research like this.
Its easy to say cut cut cut ... then when we dont find cures for this or that ... scream about how these ailments are costing tax payers billions ...
That bridge in Alaska - yea Palin's baby ... and completely worthless. Cut that ...
In fact I'd do something like this ...
Set the limit of federal dollar outflow to inflow to 1.1 to .9 range.
That way NJ wont be sending out $1 for 60c of inflow, and SC wont be getting in 1.75 for every dollar it sends out.
If that was done, we will automagically see all the welfare queen states most of which are republican automagically go bankrupt.
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Srinath.
Blaming one side won't get us anywhere, this whole thing is an abuse of taxpayers in order to transfer wealth to supporters. Leave the research to universities and businesses who are experts in their respective fields and get the bureaurocrats out.