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Until public research money is done away with, and a new system is in place, it will go on. Every single dollar appropriated should have to be authorized by congress as a line item in the budget. We can no longer afford to keep paying back political allies with taxpayer dollars. The reason so many universities are beyond wealthy today is due to bloated amounts of federal research money that always goes to political allies. Make each school compete fairly.

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Reddog, the President also needs to have a line item VETO authority over budget items

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Yes, you are quite right; a lot of this nonsense looks like a kickback under a fig leaf.

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