Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

With Republicans and Tea Partiers in power in the House and some serious financial problems in the country, things look really bad for a lot of science funding. I was talking about some of the frustrations of getting research funded with a friend last night. Her response surprised me. She works in education and she says it’s pretty easy to get money to fund STEM education right now. So we’re pouring money into training people for jobs that we’re destroying?