At www.scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure:
http://tinyurl.com/2e2o7c
we learn "Everyone remembers that NIH had a brief period of good
fortune when its budget doubled. Because they have been flat funded
since, however, the buying power of the NIH budget is now back where
it was before the doubling. Since the tiny increase this budget
version proposes doesn't keep up with inflation, NIH will suffer
another cut in real terms. A slightly bigger CDC increase provides
2.8% over this year, way down from the vetoed budget bill that gave it
6.6%. Another cut in real terms. The pathetic thing is that CDC
advocates are breathing an interim sigh of relief because things
aren't as bad as the President's original budget. Just pathetic."

Does George Bush somehow think of himself as an inverted Robin Hood,
robbing the sick to give to the war?

How is it providing any kind of security to fritter away billions in
an asinine trumped-up war in Iraq, and neglect to protect people at
home?

In short, it isn't.

Budikka