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- From: shearson!snark!pmetzger@uunet.uu.net (Perry E. Metzger)
- Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
- Subject: Funding
- Message-ID: <Aug.26.22.44.13.1992.1584@planchet.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 02:44:14 GMT
- Sender: nanotech@planchet.rutgers.edu
- Organization: Lehman Brothers
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- Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu
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- willdye@helios.unl.edu (Will Dye) writes:
- >I agree that we need to keep making the case for better funding of
- >nanotech. I recall Cong. Newt Gingrich scolding the L-5 society
- >(or some related group), telling them that the reason dairy farmers
- >get more federal funding than NASA is that the dairy farmers are
- >better organized.
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- I question whether funding either dairy farmers or scientific research
- is an appropriate use of the coercive powers of government.
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- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
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- Just say "NO!" to death and taxes.
- Extropian and Proud.
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- [A laudable ethical stance, but it is just as true that we need to make
- a better case for businessmen to invest in nanotech development. In
- fact we need to make a much better case, since it will be their own
- money they will be spending, and they will not be nearly as profligate.
- --JoSH]
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