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Cutting the budget for an orbiting telescope does not proceed from obscurantism.

The federal government of the United States is $14 trillion in debt. Well-nigh irresistible power blocs have made the largest line items untouchable. The Congresscritters have to do something, so they cut everything else. Thundering about "Science" from the pulpit does not change any of this.

We are going to keep doing what we've been doing until we can't do it anymore.




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