[Zeroisanumber]

Personally I am opposed to such federal grants to begin with, regardless of the subject matter, but if we're going to have them it's rather dense to exclude major branches of research.

I disagree, one of the few federal subsidies that I approve of is for science. Keeping our technology edge is an investment that's well worth making.

[SmoothTalker]

I tend to agree with you that that is an appropriate avenue for federal spending. One thing that really worries me is losing our scientific supremacy. I look at major universities and the graduate science programs and I see more Chinese and Indian kids than Americans. It worries me that such a high percentage of the young scientists we are training are not Americans. Some will stick around surely but many won't and these people will help narrow the gap between us and other countries and may eventually lead to us losing our scientific supremacy.