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Anonymous Thu Oct 6 23:36:18 2011 No.3862228 [Reply] [Original]

The Senate Appropriations Committee recently proposed to reduce the fiscal year (FY) 2012 budgets for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $190 million and the National Science Foundation (NSF) by $162 million below the current levels. Thankfully the House has proposed a $1 billion increase for NIH and no cuts for NSF! It is important to strongly oppose the Senate’s devastating budget cuts and build support for the NIH increase recommended by the House. Congress needs to hear that message from you NOW.

Please go to http://capwiz.com/faseb/issues/alert/?alertid=54229811 to email your Senators today and urge them to provide NIH and NSF with the higher funding levels approved by the House in the final FY 2012 appropriations agreement. Also urge your Representative to support the proposed NIH funding increase. Together, we can make a difference for science!

It’s really easy and only takes 1 minute.

>>	Thu Oct 6 23:41:18 2011 No.3862261 File: 392 KB, 150x103, conan.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Did this earlier today

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 6 23:42:18 2011 No.3862266 Stopped reading at fiscal year They're going to shorten the fiscal year? How many months will it be? 9?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 6 23:47:18 2011 No.3862290 Here's an idea. How about they triple the budgets of the NIH and NSF then get rid of 1% of the tax subsidies for coal and oil companies. The revenues will be hundreds of times larger than the expenses.

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Anonymous Thu Oct 6 23:51:18 2011 No.3862318

>>3862290

Stop being a communist. If we stopped supporting companies with strong representation in Washington, all the freedom would be gone.

Next you'll be saying that we should close loopholes to make corporations actually pay income tax before making largely meaningless adjustments to it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 6 23:51:18 2011 No.3862319 >>3862266 No, the fiscal year BUDGET... Patience: it's a virtue.

>>	Thu Oct 6 23:55:18 2011 No.3862335 File: 31 KB, 500x313, pJQCp.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3862318 ALL THE FREEDOM

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 00:11:18 2011 No.3862405 >>3862335 Yeah dude, that's why we can't allow Obama a second term. Obamacare will take away the precious little remaining freedom. Every last Reagan of it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 00:17:18 2011 No.3862421 >>3862405 Is that the United States customary system unit of freedom.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 00:25:18 2011 No.3862446 >>3862421 Technically yes, but it's more practical on a large scale. Kind of like a Coulomb. Subunits include Hayeks and Bushes. The superunit is the Rand. There are 16 Bushes to a Hayek, 4387 Hayeks to a Reagan, and 52 Reagans to a Rand.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 00:26:18 2011 No.3862449 >>3862421 it's the standard unit of oppression of the masses. just 5 regans is like russian gulag.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 00:26:18 2011 No.3862448 >>3862421 >United States >2011 >still using customary units Metric master race.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 00:27:18 2011 No.3862451 >>3862449 Clearly you're a communist nazi fascist.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 00:30:18 2011 No.3862458 File: 120 KB, 278x380, 1290385232392.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3862446 >America >not measuring in units of Locke

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 00:46:18 2011 No.3862525 File: 157 KB, 1280x1024, launch.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 00:47:18 2011 No.3862535 >>3862449 I thought it was a measure of monetary power. We outspent the soviets by two regans causing the soviet's economy to collapse.

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Anonymous Fri Oct 7 00:52:18 2011 No.3862558

>>3862535

Monetary power is a side effect of freedom. We outspent the ruskies by two Regans, but it is still a unit of freedom there. We outspent them by making ourselves two Regans freer with a bunch of nukes, the production of which fed back into the economy and increased our monetary power. You might like to think of it like pounds. We mostly use pounds to refer to weight, but that is just a very specific application of the pound, which is a unit of force.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 00:54:18 2011 No.3862564 >>3862535 America proved the world was more willing to let them be in debt than the russians. It's kinda retarded logic.

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Anonymous Fri Oct 7 01:02:18 2011 No.3862605

>>3862564

It's because the world knew the couldn't trust the commies.

Seriously though, it's probably because we export and import WAY more goods from foreign countries than the USSR did. Well, actually, that's a lie in the strictest sense, but I don't consider the satellite states to be separate nation states for any practical consideration. So basically the Soviet Union collapsing didn't really affect too many nations that weren't flat out under soviet control. Certainly none that were economically powerful. Whereas the US going under completely would be catastrophic for the global economy. At least for right now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 01:17:18 2011 No.3862677 File: 36 KB, 1600x1600, aperture_science.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Has anybody actually done this? Or are you all just sitting here debating politics? What is there to think about? Do it!

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 03:23:18 2011 No.3863087 >>3862677 Are you demanding that I do it? Too bad I have 2 Reagans and 3487.5 Hayeks of Freedom. More than enough freedom to not email my senator.