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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by javert on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:22PM (#25153295)
The government does not cut the budget. It is ever-growing.

Republicans lower taxes sometimes.

They re-allocate budget from one thing to another.

They don't cut the budget.

Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by Florin_Andrei on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:34PM (#25153427)
It's almost as if this is correlated with the population increase. Almost.
Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by javert on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:56PM (#25153663)
Except growth of the budget outstrips growth of the population, enormously.

Please cut out the sarcasm. Let's be nice to one another. (And if you didn't mean it to be sarcasm, never mind.)