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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @Bell_curve OP 20h \ parent \ on: Which department should we cut? Politics_And_Law
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Defense
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Half of HHS
Part of Energy
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How many employees are devoted to R and D?
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How many employees?
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14000 employees, 93000 contractors
There is no way 99 percent are devoted to research
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You understand the National Lab system and all the people involved in that are researchers and this is where the money goes....
lmao does it make you feel better if I say 80% because the Forester building is full of people crunching numbers for data. I guess in IG of DOE can be counted against but again the vast majority are researchers sure they have people that keep the place clean as well you can chalk up as well
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The part that is not military or defense
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The NNSA part is such a sliverā¦ just to cover what you would essentially be erasing isā¦ Super Computing, Fracking, Horizontal Drilling, batteries, and a bunch of other stuff like chips that run the device you are currently usingā¦
Seems to me to be a terrible awful idea. Unless you just want China to run thingsā¦ then it would be great
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