As much as I am a fiscal conservative the 246million is not much.  Here in my home town we are spending BILLIONS with B on a jet engine for the F35.  Its not the primary engine and it may never be used.  GE literally lost the contract but the powers that be in the House got money for the engine even after the department of defense said no.  No one wants the engine but tax payers are literally shoveling money into the pockets of GE (who employs many of my friends) so that the plane can use another engine.  Why don't we make more logical cuts first then deal with the nickel and dime stuff on a case by case basis.  Government funded research, I think, provides us with many necessary break throughs that might never have been achieved privately.

At 1.50 a pound I would argue that the bee industry is hardly in a place to fund its own research.  I think the fact that we are only just now learning detail information on pesticide residue and its binary interaction is almost criminal in some ways, but no one in  our industry really cared enough to bank roll the research for it...who would really gain from it?  Financially?

Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

(513) 967-1106
http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com
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