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Originally Posted by Moogs
This IS a good reason to maybe write to President Obama and suggest a couple extra weeks of debate on specific line items in this now 900B package, be questioned a bit more thoroughly. Any time there is a big government spending package, every lobbyist and dickhead in Washington gets on his or her knees and sticks both hands out. Gimme, gimme, gimme.
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Rightly so, I would say. As a scientist, I want the NIH and NSF to get some of the stimulus. I know I have lobbyists working overtime to make sure that happens. How else would government know what to do without people "begging" for it - especially with such a large sum at stake? Congress and The President have to take all the input they can get, and it's up to them to decide what is right.