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I think it's become too big to ever have a chance at effectively managing its money.
It has and that is why I fight any tax increase not matter what the money goes to since the money will always be abused and misdirected and the government will keep coming back hat in hand looking for more money.
Just like obama did a few years ago, wanting taxes increased on the rich, republicans caved and gave obama what he wanted and now oba is coming back again asking for higher taxes.
Sounds like a waste of grant money, I am all for research, but this one didn't need research. Has technology made it easier for people to meet and have sex? Yes. Research done.
Just another in the long line of really stupid "studies" paid for by the government.
I have no problem if a study has real value to the world, but this one is not really of any value.
Here are some more fun ones.
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The National Institute of Health gave the University of Kentucky $176,000 to determine if Japanese quail are more likely to have sex when high on cocaine. The study is scheduled to last through 2015.
Another National Science Foundation grant for $198,000 paid for a University of California-Riverside study of "motivations, expectations and goal pursuit in social media." Among the questions the study seeks to answer: "Do unhappy people spend more time on Twitter or Facebook
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I am actually curious about the Japanese quail one, that sounds like a fun experiment getting birds high on cocaine to see if they have more sex. Kudos to the one who came up with that idea. They probably came up with something off the wall to see if anyone would actually fund that research.
Sounds like a waste of grant money, I am all for research, but this one didn't need research. Has technology made it easier for people to meet and have sex? Yes. Research done.
It could have to do with the magnitude of these sites, and how it is under estimated how many men use them. Consider the ever expanding cost of health care, and relate it to the exorbitant cost of HIV medication, one of the costliest medications available ($432,000 for a study is a drop in the bucket in comparison) which could potentially bankrupt the health insurance industry.
Now, consider how long term gay relationships, in general, have never been encouraged in society (unlike their heterosexual counterparts), and the benefit to society to start encouraging them, . A study such as this can have a lot of relevance.
Are you equally outraged at John McCains giving a foreign copper company a few hundred thousand acres of AZ... free?
Absolutely.
Link please?
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