Insane self-crippling of the US research capacity which has saved the American taxpayer tens of billions of dollars annually.
https://blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/5-reasons-noaa-and-nasa-cuts-will-be-disastrous-for-everyone-in-the-us/
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@rahmstorf Private industry has profited enormously, indeed in many senses almost exclusively, from government and academic investment in pure research. The enormous strides taken in digital technology and pharmacology, aerospace, etc, were not the product of the benefiting firms' own R&D. You and I paid for it. This has been the foundation of American prosperity at least since the second world war.
