Science and Technology Priorities 2009

Priorities in the two-and-a-half page memo are (in this order):

– Recovery, job creation, growth

–Reduce energy dependence and mitigate climate change

–Reduce health care costs

–National security and arms control verification and nonproliferation (??  But that’s what it says….probably a reflection of who’s influential in internal WH lobbying over th e memo)

I hope we aren’t in for another episode like the 1990s where the Dems rushed to cash in the peace dividend.    The Bushies went overboard on DOD (half a trillion dollars is way too much) but ping-ponging between two extremes is not good.