Taking Science and Health back to the Dark Ages

As many are aware, the US Government with the recent administration has been hacking away at the budgets they feel are detrimental to cut back in order to lay way to a more prosperous nation. No matter what side your on, its very evident that some of these cut backs are invalid and sometimes plain asinine to the betterment and advancements with the human condition.

As an American here, I do see some need for budget changes and what areas truly do need Government backing. Issue I take is this, a recent proposal by President Trump was made last week to not only cut back 18% on the National Institutes of Health but in turn to delegate down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with unclear budget cut numbers as well with the nations Health system. If that was not enough, there will be plans as well to trickle down the Environmental Protection Agency to a huge cut of 31% by this recent proposal.

Then comes the science research hits. In addition, the proposed plans are to also include cuts of $900 million from the Office of Science, thus creating a stagnant option for further research advancements in many areas of sciences as a whole within the borders of the United States.

Nuclear arms research, don't worry you guys will get a raise. With all the tension built up around the world with so much nuclear arms flexing, the US Government wants to sink out the budgets from scientific, health, and environment advancements so we can further develop tools of destruction with a shift in budgets to get the Department of Energy funded plenty. Better yet, these funds are solely to be placed in the hands of nuclear weapons development and not into the subsidiary offices of the Department of Energy who do research for renewable energy systems which could better our issues with the ever growing fossil fuel situation that should one day become scarce in this world.

The need for funding of science

I am guessing that someone at the White House forgot to send the memo that disease research is seriously needed and the possibility for more pandemic outbreaks could hit any region at any moment. Renewable energy development is at a stage of not only a need to know basis but also a dwindling resource we bank on in the form of fossil fuels could very well become a ghost town of a situation to obtain not too distant in the future.

We as a race of humans struggle with balance and I don't blame anyone for making snap decisions on what needs focus and what may not, this is where good debate belongs and flourishes. The question arises for me though about one thing, has the powers that be truly looked at all options or is it just their huff and puff syndrome leading the way when it comes to budget decisions for the people of their countries? Health should never be tampered with, I don't care what anyone believes but keeping my loved ones safe and free from pain is top priority in my own life and I would suspect in everyone else's lives.

Maybe Thomas Edison was foreshadowing the day when the governments of the world had no use for science due to the fact it doesn't fit sometimes into their own schemes of world dominance? Something to ponder there!

A proposal of my own

I beg to believe here that the US Government is still blind to the usage here in crypto currency heaven. The advancements we are making and the wide open boundaries of possibilities that we can do with Blockchain technologies. Look at us here on Steemit alone, we post some blogs...a system kicks us back value through its algorithm and no one is out a dime for that other than the time the wonderful developers put in to make this a working reality.

Science and Health may need to wise up and look towards us here for other avenues to keep chugging along.

Many of us have grown with more usage for crypto currency due to the nature of the beast at our door with Central Banks. We have be ostracized in our own little ways from the mainstream financial system and governments enslaved to them and worked our way here to break free from that. It is clear to me today after reading a lot of the damage being done to our Arts, Science, Health, and Environmental systems lately that these entities as well might be drifting along in the same boat as us here.

I think I have a slight solution for them Maybe its time these Departments embraced technologies like Steemit has created, get a funding site going for their researches and let the citizens of the world UPVOTE their causes to get the research done? I believe we are all at a stage we can't expect the governments of the world to always have our back so maybe its time we all start pushing to fix the areas damaged by the system and help everything along in a form we as a people of the world would like to see the human condition travel down together.

I envision this could spread out to other avenues, health insurance blockchains, college tuition blockchain funding, small business loan blockchains where simple UPVOTES get the job done for what people believe in. And the biggest one yet, a real voting system for democracy where we can actually know our votes are really being counted so we have no issues knowing those running the show are the ones we really wanted in there.

I am not against who is in office now, nor who has been...sometimes I think its more our fault for letting the madness carry on, I think no matter what, with the condition of the US Government at this stage...Americans will not get what they need out of these guys till we reform the issues going on inside the whole of the system. This recent news that we are about to turn our backs on the most common sensed programs that helps citizens and the world progress has me really scratching my head and dumbfounded on how much longer we will let this carry on. We must unify

" And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity." ~Ernst Toller

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