What would you say to the thought that since it is mostly the tax-payers’ money that flows into it…
I think folks should vote appropriately.
consider the setting of the scientific research agenda
I think folks should work on whatever they feel like, regardless of funding. Take the chap who made this video. Even before he got his “funding” from youtube, he replied to a viewer’s question on how he could afford all this activities and tools. I’ll try to find that interview, but basically he said it’s not hard to fund it yourself. That’s what we should aspire to, instead of whining and begging (I say that advisedly).
Found the interview