I've got one on my nightstand right now

Just another pet project in a massive budget that adds to our 23 trillion dollar debt

Ah NOW we have a *"strict Constitutionalist."* I trust he has a copy of *"Sovereign Citizen"* in his wallet. 🙄

Oh please. Practically all the government debt is from welfare programs or some military spending. All Government research is barely a drop in the bucket.

the welfare can go too

I consider any non-essential project on the federal level to be welfare to the government

yup

jobs programs

I want a smaller fucking government

You can do that without embracing theoretical methodology.

You can have a smaller government that also aggregates data.

I'll tell you what. When the feds manage to balance their fucking budgets, they can fit this project into it

The two aren’t mutually exclusive

Swanky cat, did you get a degree in data aggregation?

Until then, let's not give them even more shit to do

is that your angle?

Everybody thinks their project is just a drop, and maybe it is, but there are millions or drops in the bucket

Lol. No. It’s just useful to do it.

Welfare and research are drastically different

Trump's regulation plan worked well. We could try to apply it to the budget. For every dollar you want to add, you have to cut two.

Congress never calibrates budgets to allow for this at the expense of something else, they just throw it on top and the government increases in size

Ok. Fine by me. Cut 100 dollars for every dollar on government research. That would probably only get rid of half the welfare state.

The funds available for research get spent on papers describing how glacier research is seixst

lol

The funds available for art get spent on piss-christ

Did the government really pay money for the last one? I doubt it.

yeah

piss-christ was a nationally funded project

How? No way.

I don’t believe it.

Immersion (Piss Christ) is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition,[1] which was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects.

Also, why should the feds fund art? Why should they fund most things? lol

Southeastern. Southeastern. No way. I can’t believe that heretic blasphemer lives in the south

Austin is in Texas.

Art has value, so let it be reflected in the market. If people don't think it's being funded enough, they can always support it with their own money

Serrano was born in New York City on August 15, 1950.[1] He is from a half Honduran, half Afro-Cuban background

austin is not texas

Oh. So really a yankee did it.

but texas will soon be austin

Don't you say that.

Damn Yankees and their atheist garbage