"Junk Finance" is overwhelmingly more costly than
"Junk Science".

For every $454 we throw down the 'mortgage backed securities'
rathole, we invest $1 in basic science research.

If we reduced the flow to our financial hemorrhage by 1%,
we could increase our investment in basic research by
4.46 times it's current value.

NSF 'General Science' budget for FY 2011 is projected
to be about $7.4 billion. or 0.22 % of the $33 trillion
given to Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch
and many other corporations, domestic and foreign.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/defa...ts/science.pdf

http://good-b.com/blog/?p=1753

--Winston