Campuses warn of cuts in research

MIT wants wants federal tax dollars.Are these really cuts or just smaller increases?

Funding for research would inch up 0.1 percent to $132.3 billion in the fiscal 2006 budget proposed by the Bush administration. By contrast, federal research outlays climbed 4.6 percent in fiscal 2005, 6.9 percent in fiscal 2004, and 14.5 percent in fiscal 2003. Funding for basic research, which has longer time horizons and fewer immediate applications, would dip 1.1 percent to $26.5 billion under the 2006 spending plan. And when adjusted for inflation, overall research funding would fall 1.9 percent to $129.7 billion in the proposed new budget.

George Bush, the big spender with help from the MSM.Boston Globe