Anti-Intellectuals: Please Leave This Country!

Hi,

Two anti-intellectuals in the Senate are up to their usual tricks:

<http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2009/02/science-gets-th.html>

They went through the stimulus bill and identified "useless programs" and decided that most of the funding related to scientific research is useless.

Honestly, these people are too dumb to save and we should revoke their citizenships and deport them. Let them live in a country that hasn't invested in basic R&D for the past 50-60 years and let's see how they like it.

We are surrounded by the benefits of scientific research in this society. To the point that most of these benefits are in the background, unseen and unappreciated by the anti-intellectuals of the world.

Would you like one example? Death by waterborne disease used to be the number one killer in the country just 100 years ago. That's just one of thousands of benefits that science has provided to this country.

The amount of money in the stimulus package devoted to scientific research is paltry (our country is still in eminent danger of losing our lead in science to Europe and Asia even with the funding targeted by these Senators) and should stay in place.

Lets instead remove all of the tax cuts in the bill except for the poor and lower middle class portions of society and then we'll have removed the truly useless programs from the stimulus bill.

Ken