Even lower rates for certain things, such as education, poverty rate.

That is our priority, it seems. That and providing handouts to corporations and big Ag.

only if your goal is to kill, pulverize and irradiate things. Not so first rate when it come to defusing conflict.

Defusing conflicts should be left to the UN and its police force.

Leaving us with shit.

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House of Representatives Budget Chairman, Paul Ryan (R-WI), released a 10-year spending plan on Tuesday. The plan claims to balance the federal budget within the next 10 years, through deep cuts of roughly $4.6 trillion, which is more than the entire federal budget for FY 2012. The plan imposes extreme cuts to non-defense discretionary programs, which include line-items such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Head Start, education, and air traffic control. These cuts will take place by imposing a 414-billion-dollar cap on non-defense discretionary spending for FY 2014, which starts on October 1st. To put this into perspective, this cap means that about $167 billion will be cut from these programs in FY 2014, accounting for the sequester cuts that took effect on March 1st. While the sequester cuts have dealt a devastating 5.1% cut to NIH funding for the remainder of this year, the House plan could mean more than a 10% cut to the NIH budget in FY 2014. The graph on the right shows the deep cuts to NIH for FY 2013 after the sequester, and the cuts that will take place for FY 2014 if Rep. Ryan’s budget is adopted.



http://www.mediaite.com/online/shocker-republican-budgets-devastate-nih-funding/

And climate refugees, as well as climate change, are contributing to outbreaks of diseases not previously known in the US,
like dengue fever outbreak in Texas, said a recent article.
Hopefully saner heads will prevail over the typical Republican slash and burn, to the dark ages return, budget.

with teahadists being voted into office by good amerikans to destroy government, take needed entitlements and health care from those who need it, a woman's right to decisions concerning her own body being abrogated, with unarmed blacks being shot down in the streets like dogs and their killers walking the streets free men, with Jesus used as an excuse to hate and destroy????? Not turning into, already there and heading toward the third rate, fast.

My oldest is going into engineering and the youngest is thinking about medicine. My oldest already ready knows the college she will exchange to in Europe (Exeter).

To sort of quote Chalmers Johnson "go to Vancouver and watch America blow up from just over the border."

They ignored me.

and today, where I live, people are desperate to find a good elelctrician, or plumber.
The 2 in this area we know of are too busy to show up in less than 3 weeks.

plumber or electrician. I want to line up my oldest with a coworker's son who is studying to be a lineman now (a great occupation by the way at least according to my friend).

It is an important job for out society, with reasonable expectation of long-term employment. Lineman are often unionized.

that is one hot topic of discussion.
My advice is to get a paper that says you are a plumber or electrician and then if you want to go to regular college you have a fall back position.

That's just as good as science and medicine, right?

I should have majored in classical archaeology instead.

-Laelth

Sadly, she has - as teenagers are wont to do - decided against my advice.

now US citizen and I are already planning to return to Europe soon. Husband is scared shitless about these right to work laws and does NOT like being insecure on the job front here. We're very lucky that we are not in poverty but he wants to return to Europe to get back his 5-6 weeks of vacation, universal health care, public transportation and safety nets that you can actually live on in case you do lose a job over there. (He and I are nervous of this gun culture). He is in his mid-40s and has never felt so job insecure in his life and I see the stress making him grayer and grayer. (We lived abroad from '07-'09 after we got married in '06). As a citizen, I am very disappointed with my country and sad that I even asked him to come here. I was wrong. I made a mistake and now, I want to go back and live like a real socialist.

edit: grammar

It is worthwhile to remember that there is an alternative lifestyle that national wealth - which the US and Europe both have - allows.

I have had zero luck in finding any openings abroad.

The land of opportunity is elsewhere these days - not to mention the land of sanity.

USA! USA! USA!

Just try to find an American chiropractor who is well-versed enough about the musculature and the nervous system of the human body to provide good adjustments and alignments. Most of them are pretty far off into woo-woo land nowadays: crystals; pyramid power; laser light baths are just a few of the things America's chiros are getting into, to the neglect of really knowing the human body.

You pretty much have to leave the U.S. to find a knowledgeable chiropractor.

since they believe most illnesses are caused by fictional things called subluxations. (If they don't believe that crap, they're not really chiropractors).

There is some limited evidence that spinal manipulation can be helpful against back pain, but you're best off going to a physio who actually knows about the human body and doesn't believe in all the woo.

Going to a chiropractor also has a fairly high risk of causing serious problems including paralysis.

when the christians took over, burned the libraries and killed
Hypatia to what this scientist is saying.

The city was a beacon for learning as was the US at one time

But that's PROGRESS....... which is a bad word now.

start over I wouldn't think even twice of leaving the US. I really think that this country is in an irreversible decline which is really kind of to be expected. Look at history thru the ages, one entity rises up and is supreme, goes into a decline and then a new entity rises to the top, and so on and so on. With our pouring endless money into the military and out of control conservatives/teapartiers doing their best to destroy this country, the rate of our decline is speeding up.

Yes, if I were younger I would be looking around to see where true opportunity exists. If I had ever had children I would have encouraged them to do the same thing.

If I were just a bit younger I think I'd do it - and as is I am keeping that option open if it gets bad and dysfunctional enough.

He is a product of our great university system, having spent over 40 years at the best of the best (Yale, Harvard, MIT, Stanford). I imagine along the way he and his students have benefited from many federal grants and fellowships. And this great system of universities and government research has led him to his profession's greatest prize.

So federal funding of research has been reduced in recent years, due in some part to our current circumstances, and this is how he reacts? What a bitter man! I feel sorry for his students, and hope they don't take his advice.

Edit for typo.

exactly how bleak the landscape is for researchers. Funding rates for several agencies are down to 6%, meaning only 1 out of roughly 17 applicants receive funding. The end result is we have a lot of established scientists leaving the field, giving up on research, and transitioning to different career paths.

The advice he offers is good advice. We've been advising our students to simply not go into research. It's unfortunate, but without funding there is no research.

but the impression the reporting gives is that he used his moment of glory to encourage researchers to leave the US, after having ridden the US research system to the top. I think a more appropriate comment for that moment would be to point out that federal funding of research has shrunk, and needs to be (re)grown for the US to maintain its position.

Having said that, he is a researcher and researchers are not known for their tact.

rantings that are slowly destroying our leadership in many fields.

Not the way they used to, and not the way they should. We are most certainly on the decline as a country. I wouldn't blame anybody especially young people for leaving. My daughter has a couple of years of French under her belt and I wouldn't doubt it a bit if she went abroad for a while or maybe for good.