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A comment on NSF getting kicked out of headquarters by HUD. Parent comment
71% of their budget goes to stuff like the food stamp program, interacting with tens of thousands of schools and state/local governments and whatnot.
The talent pool for bureaucrats (and researchers, and statisticians, etc.) is fundamentally more important.
(And let's not pretend there's no agriculture on the East Coast.)
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71% of their budget goes to stuff like the food stamp program, interacting with tens of thousands of schools and state/local governments and whatnot.
The talent pool for bureaucrats (and researchers, and statisticians, etc.) is fundamentally more important.
(And let's not pretend there's no agriculture on the East Coast.)