Ike
12/19/2007, 02:04 PM
http://www.kcchronicle.com/articles/2007/12/19/news/local/doc4768b6d4e621b933264204.txt
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There is an "all hands" meeting here tomorrow morning where the lab director will discuss what this may or may not mean for us. They haven't made any firm decisions on what will happen if this passes, but whatever the case, it will probably be bad.
What does this mean for me? Well, it means that I'll be able to stay here until the Tevatron shuts down, and then I'll book over to Geneva to play with the LHC for a while. That much was already in the plan. But afterward, if I want to stay in this field, the likelihood that I'll be able to do so in the US will be pretty slim. The hope was that the ILC would come here, and I could work on that. But with the R&D budget slashed so much for it, I doubt that it will be here, if it ever comes into existence at all.
Oh, and this bit from the article makes me madder:
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said he is unhappy about funding for physics, putting the blame on the White House.
“The Democratic budget rejected by the president would have funded Fermilab’s programs,” Durbin said in an e-mail statement. “But, the president and his Republican allies in Congress refused to fund those programs and we were left with stark choices – reduce funding for high-end physics or cut money for veterans; reduce spending at Fermilab or eliminate funding for rural hospitals.”
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., also blamed Bush. The Associated Press reported Obama was campaigning in Iowa on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, the Bush Administration has put politics above the interests of the American people, and these drastic funding cuts are the consequence,” Obama said in an e-mail statement.
So what they are saying is: "we were willing to fund at the requested levels, but because the prez didn't like all the extra **** we put in the budget, we decided to cut a lot of the things he likes to make room for the extra **** we wanted"
jackholes. All of them.
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There is an "all hands" meeting here tomorrow morning where the lab director will discuss what this may or may not mean for us. They haven't made any firm decisions on what will happen if this passes, but whatever the case, it will probably be bad.
What does this mean for me? Well, it means that I'll be able to stay here until the Tevatron shuts down, and then I'll book over to Geneva to play with the LHC for a while. That much was already in the plan. But afterward, if I want to stay in this field, the likelihood that I'll be able to do so in the US will be pretty slim. The hope was that the ILC would come here, and I could work on that. But with the R&D budget slashed so much for it, I doubt that it will be here, if it ever comes into existence at all.
Oh, and this bit from the article makes me madder:
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said he is unhappy about funding for physics, putting the blame on the White House.
“The Democratic budget rejected by the president would have funded Fermilab’s programs,” Durbin said in an e-mail statement. “But, the president and his Republican allies in Congress refused to fund those programs and we were left with stark choices – reduce funding for high-end physics or cut money for veterans; reduce spending at Fermilab or eliminate funding for rural hospitals.”
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., also blamed Bush. The Associated Press reported Obama was campaigning in Iowa on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, the Bush Administration has put politics above the interests of the American people, and these drastic funding cuts are the consequence,” Obama said in an e-mail statement.
So what they are saying is: "we were willing to fund at the requested levels, but because the prez didn't like all the extra **** we put in the budget, we decided to cut a lot of the things he likes to make room for the extra **** we wanted"
jackholes. All of them.