Wow Dr. McCallum, you put it pretty well, particularly the shoes
analogy. :)
I would be curious as to what people think of some proposed policy items
I submitted to the office of a congressman recently (see URL to the
document below). These are more about HOW the money could be spent more
effectively, but I also share the belief that MORE money needs to be
spent overall on research and education.
Note: I wrote this in about a 15 minute sitting late the night before my
meeting with the congressman's staff - a meeting I arranged earlier that
day - so this certainly isn't perfect or complete. :)
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B346aiixZYb4YzVkZmRmOGUtYTM2Yi00ZDgyLWJlOGMtN2I4NjNkY2NhZDlh&hl=en_US&authkey=CLan_LgC
Cheers,
Aaron T. Dossey, Ph.D.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
On 5/22/2011 4:49 PM, malcolm McCallum wrote:
Lets see, China is buying away all our scientists...
where do you think we will be in 30 years compared to them?
When will the US govt decide once again to be something other than a
military machine. India, China, elsewhere. I know an a lot of people
my age who have left for the higher pay and better benefits found in
these places. I just don't see how we can hope to possibly be a top
dog in the world when we are cheap in anything except military
spending.
The US is kind of like the guy who doesn't have enough money for
shoes, but spends a pile of money on the top-of-the-line Mercedes
Benz. We spend as much as the next ten countries combined to have a
Mercedes Benz military, meanwhile, we don't have money to buy shoes.
PRETTY SAD SET OF AFFAIRS>
2011/5/22 Aaron T. Dossey<[email protected]>:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/go-to-china-young-scientist/2011/05/19/AFCY227G_story.html
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Aaron T. Dossey, Ph.D.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
