----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at attbi.com>
>
> It's not the funding per se at issue, nor it's possibly zero-sum
character;
............
>I was only speaking within the context of science funding per
> se.
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Contradiction alert! :-)
> I think we make a mistake when the problem is set in the context of
> science/ fed budget ratios because it obfuscates the real problems that
need
> to be dealt with; in the same manner that framing military spending as %
of
> GDP obfuscates the fact that another 100 years of US style budgets for
WMD's
> along the lines of the last 57 years and the like could easily spell
> extinction.
>
> Ian
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The rest of this stands and, I think, gives sufficient context which mitigates my neural failure......
Ian