Posted on 03/22/2025 12:12:11 PM PDT by george76
So why are we giving them money? They’re not even American.
bttt
Get your money from your HOME COUNTRY
There’s universities in Bhutan that are closer to the United States than this one.
Kickbacks ?
Why are we funding their research?
Hugo Chávez would also give away all of Venezuela’s money
Vegemite research is important!
The money stops they complain and never say Thank you
“If this was any other country, it verges on foreign interference. It’s just remarkable.”
It borders on foreign interference to ask for information from those to whom you’re giving hundreds of millions of dollars to? How “entitled” can one be?!
Well I'll tell ya what sweet cheeks. I think you should reject all foreign interference from the US and stop taking our money.
The actual news story is that we are funding Australian universities to the tune of (at least) $385 million.
“Hey Bruce, the teat went dry”
LOL. In my prior job I teleconferenced with counterparts all over the world. In every conversation with the Aussies there was always someone that would extol the virtues of Vegemite.
You will probably find that people at the university are funneling some of the grant money back to politicians or organizations run by politicians. Having been involved in college grants, they are how the professors and students are paid. The subject of the grant, in my experience, only got attention when it was time to generate a report. The report invariably supported whatever the grant was supposed to be about although in some cases, if you got past the broadly written summary which could be interpreted multiple ways you’d discover the actual data did not support what the summary seemed to say. So, yeah, fraud.
We’ve long been aware that we’re not only defending the world, we’re subsidizing it as well. But $386,000,000 for Australian research grants still comes as a bit of a shock.
Just think of how much that money would have helped recovery efforts in our recent domestic disasters.
Our priorities have been seriously screwed-up. For a long, long time.
Hmm...so tapping foreign governments for $384 m-m-million is fine but strings attached are foreign interference? If they want none of this interference they can always say “No thanks, keep your money.” Which might be the best thing for all parties involved anyway.
Exactly.
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