Nerds 4 Obama

I think Ron Paul is unlikely to release his policy paper because he is no longer running for office :-)

make that Sixty-one Nobel laureates and one multi-millionaire ppx player.

It seems that within the U.S there has been a inclined interest towards Obama but we should not avoid the heavy research backing of Mcain also.....

I guess for scientific luminaries, when the President questions the validity of controversial research it's "political." When the President limits taxpayer funding of research with serious moral implications, it's also "political." I can hardly wait for those luminaries to have their minds finally set at ease as scientists are freed from any questions about the validity or morality of taxpayer-funded research under a miraculously apolitical Obama presidency.

Oh, wait. I forgot that those luminaries are people too and they have questionable opinions that matter as much as mine, which is very little.

Obama will be the greatest president in U.S. history and will help all of us Nerds get great paying jobs in science.

Please. Obama just wants to spend taxpayer money. He wants bigger government, and he is sucking in the weak-minded with the lure of more money for whatever programs they might be interested in. In this case, science. Y'all might want to read up on all the other programs he plans to spend billions on. And when the money just isn't there, who is gonna get cut out first? Entitlements? Not so much. Health care? Guess again. "Luxury" programs like science and military will be the first to go.

I thought scientists were supposed to be smart. Where is all this extra money gonna come from? The rich? I think we're about to bail the rich out to the tune over half of a TRILLION dollars! These scientists may know a lot about science, but they need to take an economics course before they start endorsing candidates. Very sad.

I don't see the point in increasing federal support for science. This is a capitalist country. Everyone has different opinions about what is important. If you think that these programs are worth your hard-earned cash, then start a fundraiser for them. The fact is that when these programs are something that is worth while, they get funding from the private sector. I thinm that the following things are all that the federal government should have their noses in.

Military (you can't have a private military. That would basically be gang warfare.)

Helping the environment (at least until it becomes profitable to do so. then the free market can take over.)

Schooling (some eager kids wouldn't go to school if they felt they needed to aid their family more. Mandatory government funded schools give those kids a reason to attend.)

Keeping us from killing each other. (this is what you call a "law")

And VERY FEW other things.

The reason that there isn't as much emphasis on science today is not because of inaction or action on the government's part. We have one of the most divers nations in the world. We can't expect a large portion of our society to have the exact same interests. Besides, the culture as a whole frowns on the intellectual and smiles upon the jock. The real problem is the CULTURE. There basically two ways to get the public reinterested. One way is to start some sort of convoluted space race with China. ( it turns out that we had a working rocket and a functional sattelite before Russia. We just didn't fund the right technology. The purpose of the sattelite was to establish space as international territory and Russia did that for us.)

The second way to get the majority involved in education is to elect a grand honarable chairman to preside over the People's Republic of America