In email this morning from the American Physical Society, a call for a financial bailout:<\/p>\n
\nCongress has not passed any FY 2009 appropriations bills and is now
\nfinalizing a Continuing Resolution (CR) that will keep the government
\noperating when the new fiscal year begins on October 1, 2008. The
\nHouse is expected to consider the bill on Thursday or Friday of this
\nweek. The CR, according to the latest information, will remain in
\neffect until March 6, 2009 and would keep all federal programs
\noperating at FY 2008 levels, except those granted waivers. At this
\ntime, science is not on the waiver list, and the proposed bill would
\nnot include any of the science increases contained in the
\nSupplemental Appropriations bill Congress passed earlier this year.
\nUnless science receives a waiver, the impact will be extraordinarily
\ndamaging.<\/p>\nSpecifically,<\/p>\n
.Department of Energy user facilities would be forced to cut back
\n operations substantially;
\n.A new round of layoffs at the national laboratories could occur;
\n.The number of university grants would be cut, with new, young
\n investigators especially harmed; and
\n.The U.S. would be forced to cut to near zero its planned contributions
\n to the global fusion energy project, ITER, damaging the nation’s
\n ability to participate in future international scientific collaborations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThey’re asking that APS members contact Congress to ask them to include the science funding increases authorized in the Supplemental Appropriations bill last year, and they provide a handy web page<\/a> to make it easy to do so. If you’re interested in seeing adequate funding for science in the US, please consider dropping a line to Congress and telling them so.<\/p>\n
If it’s worth $700 billion to bail out the financial wizards who brought us the subprime mortgage mess, surely it’s worth a percent or so of that amount to support people who do some actual good for society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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