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2/12/2013 12:22:09 AM
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The National Science Foundation's budget has gone up ([url=http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/]by 800 million dollars[/url]) under Obama, so that point is out.
The National Institute of Health's budget has gone up (from [url=http://www.nih.gov/about/director/budgetrequest/fy2008directorsbudgetrequest.htm]28.9 billion[/url] to [url=http://officeofbudget.od.nih.gov/pdfs/FY13/FY2013_Overview.pdf]30.9 billion[/url]) under Obama, so that point's out.
Republicans are always the ones who suggest Intelligent Design being taught in schools, never Democrats. So that's an awful mark against Republicans.
The NASA budget is a problem, I'll give him that, but it went down from the beginning of Bush's first term to the end of his last; I'm not talking money, I'm talking % of the Federal Budget. [[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA]Source[/url]]
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Nobody is talking exclusively about Obama. We're talking about democrats and republicans in general. My point still stands. Also, take a look at the percentages of those increased and account for inflation, and it doesn't look like a lot money. Keep in mind Bush had to give funds during wartime, which horribly hindered our spending. You apparently aren't looking at the variables, and this is the real world.
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Inflation does not account for 800,000,000 dollars nor 2 billion dollars from 2008 to 2012.
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Edited by Hoggs Bison: 2/12/2013 12:45:10 AM[url=http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/]Inflation was 3.4% in 2000 and 2.1% in 2012.[/url] [url=http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/]Wartime funding seems to have had little impact on spending.[/url]
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And this invalidates my point, how?
