Much of the technology that has made the United States a leader was created by government funded research.
Things like the Internet, GPS, the Human Genome project, the transistor, the Hubble Telescope, and tens of thousands of lesser known research breakthroughs were funded in large part through the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, and also the Defense Department.
If you decide to change the way these things are funded, and allow universities to take less of the grants for overhead, you need to make this a ten-year project to allow universities to adjust.
To chop things off quickly and mindlessly will be deeply destructive, and this destruction is already being felt in universities across the united states.
Of course, this will thrill China, which country is entirely behind technology and is already threatening our lead in a various areas, such as drones, AI, and construction technology. Search for modern Chinese civil engineering and see what they are up to. As a dictatorship that worships technology, they will continue to grow past us.
What does Trump worship, if not technology? And why does Musk not realize that they are shooting ourselves in the foot with a high powered rifle?
WHAT WE CAN DO:
Turns out that some red states, such as Alabama, have enormous research programs in the universities there. And there are major universities in every state employing thousands of people in laboratory research, from PhD types, lab worker, janitors, and all the support businesses around each college.
Find out about US government funded research in your state and get your Senators and Reps to stand up to Trump and Musk.
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