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What you don’t get is that this will just kill off most schools. [/quote]

It won't kill off most schools, but it will force them to cut the flab and make choices on how to spend limited money. It will kill some schools, that is a much needed Darwinian fitness test.[/quote]

They are cutting research, not “flab”.

MAGAs are dumb AF. 
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Look beneath the surface & see what this “research” is focused on, moron. [/quote]

I have a relative whose research is focused on treatment of diabetes whose lab is affected.  The research affected is focused on issues that affect millions of ordinary Americans.  Another relative is in a cancer drug trial at one of the affected institutions.  This just really stinks — why we want to attack what is America’s best industry is beyond me.  I love America.  I want it to thrive.[/quote]

All of a sudden EVERYBODY is a cancer researcher. And nobody knows someone getting millions to investigate the patriarchy’s impact on 17th century Hungarian undergarments. [/quote]

That’s because the fed govt doesn’t fund research into Hungarian undergarments so it’s not relevant.  Most of the fed money to places like Harvard and JHU is going to medical research.   Some is going to things like Pell Grants so kids from low income families can attend top colleges.  (I got a Pell grant.).   Very little of the humanities work is federally funded.  I googled whether Harvard gets any money from the national endowment for the arts and all I could find was an article that is 15 years old about a 75K grant to the Harvard museum for an exhibition about immigrants.  The professors teaching Hungarian 17th century history are all privately endowed chairs.[/quote]

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