Here's what I've been able to come up with so far, from this website of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Biological and Ecological Sciences in the FY 2005 Budget:
";... funding for non-medical biology ... accounts for only 3 percent of all federally supported life science funding."The National Science Foundation (NSF) remains the principal federal supporter of the biological and ecological sciences, providing 65 percent of the academic funding for non-medical biology. The NSF proposed budget for FY 2005 includes a 2.2 percent ($13 million) increase in funding for the Biological Sciences Directorate (BIO) to bring it to a total of $600 million.
That $600 million is broken down into Molecular and Cellular Biosci, Integrative Biology & Neurosci, Environmental Biology , Biological Infrastructure, Emerging Frontiers, Plant Genome Research. Seems to be all non-medical (and presumably, even creationists don't object to medical research). Here's a table with a breakdown of those expenditures by category: R&D in the National Science Foundation.
If that $600 million is 65% of non-med funding, the total (which would include other stuff from the Agriculture Dep't, forestry bureaucracies, oceanic research, etc.) is about $900 million. That's a nice number. But it's only from federal funding. There is also a large amount of private, industrial funding, from biotech and pharmaceutical firms for example. (There is, of course, absolutely no creationism/ID research program of any kind, private or governmental.)
So let's stick with what the feds spend, non-medical, because that's where the objection seems to lie. If there are, say, 100,000 scientists and technicians working in such research (and it may be more), that comes to ... $9K per person. Incredible riches!
YOU are slipping, I see nothing out of the Department of Education.
Your methods of deception are showing.
Bill Gates will be passing out $437 million by himself over the next 5 years according to the August Bio-IT World.
The company where I work will spend about $2 billion in 2005. Total private investment in biology research in the US alone is probably $50 billion a year. The competition for these funds is intense.
ID'ers can't get this money because they have no proposals!
So they're stuck with the P.T. Barnum approach and sell books, pamphlets and speeches instead.