DragonSidedD@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTrump Wants $3 Billion in Harvard Grants Redirected to Trade Schoolswww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1141arrow-down1external-linkTrump Wants $3 Billion in Harvard Grants Redirected to Trade Schoolswww.nytimes.comDragonSidedD@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
the president mused about redirecting $3 billion in research grant funding that his administration has frozen or withdrawn
minus-squareDragonSidedD@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up69·edit-22 months agoIt plays to his anti-intellectual base: “See? We are finally pw0ning those effete libs and putting the money into the trades.” (You know you could put a lot of people through trade school for the cost of one big military parade, and not have to give up f’ing cancer research)
minus-squarenocturne@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·edit-22 months agoHell you could take double what Hartford gets, out of the military budget and put that into trades and the military would hardly notice. If my math is correct, 6 billion is not even 0.75% of the military’s budget from last year.
minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 months agoWe just randomly increased military spending by 150 BILLION this year. That could have paid for a lot of trade schools
It plays to his anti-intellectual base: “See? We are finally pw0ning those effete libs and putting the money into the trades.”
(You know you could put a lot of people through trade school for the cost of one big military parade, and not have to give up f’ing cancer research)
Hell you could take double what Hartford gets, out of the military budget and put that into trades and the military would hardly notice. If my math is correct, 6 billion is not even 0.75% of the military’s budget from last year.
We just randomly increased military spending by 150 BILLION this year.
That could have paid for a lot of trade schools