Thank God DOGE is uncovering pure graft. It’s time the universities entered the facts of the real world. The 15% overfunding is more than fair. They should be smart enough to work within their budgeted amount!!
Most of the research is bias with predetermined goals. A research paper published over 20 years ago addressed this issue and nothing has changed. Good examples are the 30 million dollar WHE and the Harvard Vitamin D study. Both designed with predetermined outcomes.
Universities go along with this because it grows their status and dominance. May of the studies are used to discredit simple health solutions.
The University of Wisconsin ( where Gates funds research) has a professor who was caught in a video by a student slandering RFK Jr. and calling him ugly names. When this video was released on social media, many of us wrote letters to the chancellor and other higher-ups calling for disciplinary action. We also requested a personal meeting to correct the misinformed teaching, but we were declined. These people stood behind that professor who spread lies, calling him a kook and nut job, etc about Kennedy. No doubt UWM's position was tied to their funding.
None of this would have been exposed if it weren't for Elon Musk. No one else could have done, or can do, what he can. So why is he leaving DOGE, his baby?
that is true but half the story. DJT was the visionary E Musk the super efficient person who proved and exposed the grift. They knew exactly where to look hence it took an afternoon to bring the receipts. He is not leaving DOGE, that is the fake news
“In recent years,” the letter begins, assuming a high academic tone, “Harvard has failed to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment.” It’s beyond me how a country with $40 trillion in debt can afford to chuck billions at universities in annual “grants” that disappear right down the colleges’ memory holes every single time. But whatever. Let’s see what the Trump Team did ask for, shall we?Here’s a partial list, but enough to give you an idea of how badly out of control Harvard U. actually is:“Merit-Based Admissions Reform.”“Merit-based hiring reform.”“Harvard's plagiarism policy be consistently enforced.”“Prevent admitting students hostile to American values and institutions.”“Report to federal authorities … any foreign student, including those on visas and with green cards, who commits a conduct violation.”“Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring.”“Audit programs and departments that most fuel antisemitic harassment or reflect ideological political capture.”“Discontinue DEI.”“Enforce its existing student discipline policies with consistency and impartiality, and without double standards based on identity or ideology.”“Intervene and stop disruptions or deplatforming.”“Forbid funding of any student group or club that endorses or promotes criminal activity, illegal violence, or illegal harassment.”“Whistleblower Reporting and Protections for those who report noncompliance with the reforms detailed in this letter.”“During the reform period, share progress data with the federal government for audit, and on a non-individualized basis with the public.”My favorite: “Harvard must implement a comprehensive mask ban with serious and immediate penalties for violation, not less than suspension.”In other words, this wasn’t a list of kingly demands. It was a corporate HR memo from Planet Earth. Harvard, come in, Earth People need you.Despite President Gerbil’s breathless hysteria, nowhere in the letter did the Trump Administration try to tell Harvard (1) what it can teach, (2) who it can admit and hire, or (3) which areas of study it can pursue. You’d think the Times’s fact-checkers might have felt something squirming in their bowels. But no. Instead, the paper excreted a long diatribe about President Gerbil’s flawless courage and his fearless academic integrity.
"Like a hamster timidly peeking over the furrow to spot the plow, brave progressive resistance reared its rodent-like head yesterday, as the New York Times ran one of several similarly hysterical stories yesterday headlined, “Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands.” Harvard is standing up to the orange bully! And now, the Times and Friends have begun writing an off-Broadway play about it, featuring poetry, interpretive dance, and a Greek chorus of transgender mimes."
As always intelligence wins the award while poking fun at libtardia.
So much not included in this post that it can only be read as a biased agenda being promoted!
First, I would criticize this whole process for not taking on the government waste, loss and theft in the military. I would venture to suggest that reducing the military criminal financial acts would provide the DOGE people their trillion dollar saving/recoup to pay for the social programs that the people really need and want. Iraq alone could not account for many millions. No accounting done and no accountability ever. This alone makes this whole DOGE process nothing more than a political attack on programs that some people don't like while syphoning fortunes for the wealthy, once again.
Second, the way business is done in this country there is always a significant overcharge added to every business transaction. Even 30 yrs ago I was trained when estimating jobs in the building trades that every material item was to get a 20% surcharge. This was followed by a 10-20% overage for minor cost increases. And finally a % was added to the whole to account for overhead and profit with some companies adding 50-100% to the estimate and that has not changed. Universities are called upon to behave like businesses and when they do are being attacked as this article demonstrates.
I would demand that DOGE begin its operations by attacking Trump's little game at Maralogo with his massive expenditures written off as 'business' but that means the public is paying. Since when is golfing a presidential necessity! This, too, reveals the bogus nature of DOGE.
The other point I would make here (altho there are many others) is that the government is NOT a business which Trump and his billionaire cronies like to demand. It is an social/public institution with the responsibility of meeting the public's needs, not those of private business for profit. Accountability is required but not when it is weaponized to attack programs and work that metes the public's needs even when some people do not understand them. The public is not homogenous and we have many needs that all need to be given some support. That is govenment's job--balancing all these needs and figuring out how they are to be met. The military/industrial/pharma conglomerate is not what the public needs to be overfed without accountability. Covid, as an example, is one such government over reach to fund private profit. It killed over a million Americans as well as destroying many more lives with chronic disabilities. The public became a commodity used for profit. Those are the grants that need to be cut. The public should not be funding private corporations that keep the profits while even preventing the public from having access to the research.
This article was written solely to promote the bogus and totally politicized DOGE being run by a man whose fascism is well known with his hatred for people who are not of his white supremacist upper crust demographic. He, like Trump, hates democracy and works to destroy it. One of the Koch brothers a few years ago cynically stated that they would use democratic processes to destroy the Constitution and that has been their goal since the New Deal which gave support to working people. These are people who despise working people and poor people no matter their race, gender or sexual identity. They work to keep people divided and distracted while they promote a totalitarian agenda. Trump does not even make any bones about this as his goal!
huh? incredibly bad logic You are actually running cover for billions of dollars of Democrat grift to East Coast pretty boy institutions. This is not an overcharge it is hidden and deliberate grifting.
The gubmint is now being run as a business, that is why things are happening fast.
Your derangement syndrome is now public.
No one cares what you "would like" Your reasoning skills are severely lacking
This article is about DOGE and its alleged curbing government waste. That includes HHS and all the government grants given thru HHS. In case you don't know this entire trajectory of $$ savings is focused on all aspects of the government financial spending. My point that you seem to avoid or not get is that what is focused on as waste is limited by the political bias/prejudices that are operating today with Trump and Musk and the rest of that crew.
But we know, if we are honest and open and thinking, that the military is supported by this galloping fascism while education is being attacked for destruction. Fascists always go after education as people who read and think can ask questions and are always seen as dangerous to tyrants.
I assume that other funding agencies can have low F&A components (10-15%) because the government grants have such high F&A components. Clearly, a better balance is needed, but a sudden drop may be too hard. Some sort of phasing in process is needed.
Perhaps so. But my point was only that using low F&A rates of other external funders as a comparison is problematic, as those rates will change if government rates change.
Then let’s go with the rate of the other “philanthropic” foundations like the one owned by the CheapsGates. If anything, we should be funding more trade schools to teach people how to fix the things we use on a daily basis instead of tossing everything in the trash.
This has got to be reeled in... even 15% is waaay too much.. considering the net result of Most of the research is Americans health disintegrating over the last 50 years.. The standards for qualifying for these research grants have to be lifted dramatically.. the average citizen has gotten zero benefits from most of this rubbish.. So much of the NIH is just a dumpster fire.. the FNIH as well.. RFK Jr really needs to take a machete to both of these big Pharma captured criminal Enterprises..
I completely agree with this reporter. This kind of greed, graft and fraud hidden in University grants has got to stop. This does not end grants to Universities, it just reins in the abuse that is probably being used as a slush fund anyway! Nothing irks me more as a taxpayer!
If RFK, Jr. hasn't spoken directly about the university research grants, as the author states, then why is this column appearing in The Kennedy Beacon? It's just a rant by a Hollywood Reporter journalist who apparently has no experience with research budgets. This is an abuse of the KB substack by a Trump hack.
There's a super-simple way to eliminate gov't waste: make the top 2% pay ALL.THE.TAXES. (Just because they happen to have all the money, you understand. They own 90% of all U.S. wealth; the rest of us hardly own anything.) For even more efficacy, prevent the 2% from being recipients of any gov't expenditure.
Thank God DOGE is uncovering pure graft. It’s time the universities entered the facts of the real world. The 15% overfunding is more than fair. They should be smart enough to work within their budgeted amount!!
Most of the research is bias with predetermined goals. A research paper published over 20 years ago addressed this issue and nothing has changed. Good examples are the 30 million dollar WHE and the Harvard Vitamin D study. Both designed with predetermined outcomes.
Universities go along with this because it grows their status and dominance. May of the studies are used to discredit simple health solutions.
Very interesting! Yay DOGE! Let the Cuts continue!!!
Great work!
This university grifting is but one gross theft of taxpayer dollars, one.
There are countless others that have been exposed.
Defunding these criminals is the way forward, then and now.
Thank DJT the visionary, Elon the uber efficient executioner, and RFK who will very likely
smash Big P into a million pieces.
That is what COLLABORATION IS.
The University of Wisconsin ( where Gates funds research) has a professor who was caught in a video by a student slandering RFK Jr. and calling him ugly names. When this video was released on social media, many of us wrote letters to the chancellor and other higher-ups calling for disciplinary action. We also requested a personal meeting to correct the misinformed teaching, but we were declined. These people stood behind that professor who spread lies, calling him a kook and nut job, etc about Kennedy. No doubt UWM's position was tied to their funding.
Snowflake institutions in snowflake states. What would you expect?
They are now and have been just fine with grifting.
What a garbage institution...
is it too late to write letters? can i get the name? I live by madison
They received a lot of letters from many Kennedy supporters in Wisconsin. I don't think they would care. And this was at the Madison campus.
None of this would have been exposed if it weren't for Elon Musk. No one else could have done, or can do, what he can. So why is he leaving DOGE, his baby?
that is true but half the story. DJT was the visionary E Musk the super efficient person who proved and exposed the grift. They knew exactly where to look hence it took an afternoon to bring the receipts. He is not leaving DOGE, that is the fake news
He’s leaving after his 130 days are up. That’s all he’s allowed to work. Those are the rules!
further: JC writes
“In recent years,” the letter begins, assuming a high academic tone, “Harvard has failed to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment.” It’s beyond me how a country with $40 trillion in debt can afford to chuck billions at universities in annual “grants” that disappear right down the colleges’ memory holes every single time. But whatever. Let’s see what the Trump Team did ask for, shall we?Here’s a partial list, but enough to give you an idea of how badly out of control Harvard U. actually is:“Merit-Based Admissions Reform.”“Merit-based hiring reform.”“Harvard's plagiarism policy be consistently enforced.”“Prevent admitting students hostile to American values and institutions.”“Report to federal authorities … any foreign student, including those on visas and with green cards, who commits a conduct violation.”“Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring.”“Audit programs and departments that most fuel antisemitic harassment or reflect ideological political capture.”“Discontinue DEI.”“Enforce its existing student discipline policies with consistency and impartiality, and without double standards based on identity or ideology.”“Intervene and stop disruptions or deplatforming.”“Forbid funding of any student group or club that endorses or promotes criminal activity, illegal violence, or illegal harassment.”“Whistleblower Reporting and Protections for those who report noncompliance with the reforms detailed in this letter.”“During the reform period, share progress data with the federal government for audit, and on a non-individualized basis with the public.”My favorite: “Harvard must implement a comprehensive mask ban with serious and immediate penalties for violation, not less than suspension.”In other words, this wasn’t a list of kingly demands. It was a corporate HR memo from Planet Earth. Harvard, come in, Earth People need you.Despite President Gerbil’s breathless hysteria, nowhere in the letter did the Trump Administration try to tell Harvard (1) what it can teach, (2) who it can admit and hire, or (3) which areas of study it can pursue. You’d think the Times’s fact-checkers might have felt something squirming in their bowels. But no. Instead, the paper excreted a long diatribe about President Gerbil’s flawless courage and his fearless academic integrity.
Just this morning Jeff Childer's reports:
"Like a hamster timidly peeking over the furrow to spot the plow, brave progressive resistance reared its rodent-like head yesterday, as the New York Times ran one of several similarly hysterical stories yesterday headlined, “Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands.” Harvard is standing up to the orange bully! And now, the Times and Friends have begun writing an off-Broadway play about it, featuring poetry, interpretive dance, and a Greek chorus of transgender mimes."
As always intelligence wins the award while poking fun at libtardia.
So much not included in this post that it can only be read as a biased agenda being promoted!
First, I would criticize this whole process for not taking on the government waste, loss and theft in the military. I would venture to suggest that reducing the military criminal financial acts would provide the DOGE people their trillion dollar saving/recoup to pay for the social programs that the people really need and want. Iraq alone could not account for many millions. No accounting done and no accountability ever. This alone makes this whole DOGE process nothing more than a political attack on programs that some people don't like while syphoning fortunes for the wealthy, once again.
Second, the way business is done in this country there is always a significant overcharge added to every business transaction. Even 30 yrs ago I was trained when estimating jobs in the building trades that every material item was to get a 20% surcharge. This was followed by a 10-20% overage for minor cost increases. And finally a % was added to the whole to account for overhead and profit with some companies adding 50-100% to the estimate and that has not changed. Universities are called upon to behave like businesses and when they do are being attacked as this article demonstrates.
I would demand that DOGE begin its operations by attacking Trump's little game at Maralogo with his massive expenditures written off as 'business' but that means the public is paying. Since when is golfing a presidential necessity! This, too, reveals the bogus nature of DOGE.
The other point I would make here (altho there are many others) is that the government is NOT a business which Trump and his billionaire cronies like to demand. It is an social/public institution with the responsibility of meeting the public's needs, not those of private business for profit. Accountability is required but not when it is weaponized to attack programs and work that metes the public's needs even when some people do not understand them. The public is not homogenous and we have many needs that all need to be given some support. That is govenment's job--balancing all these needs and figuring out how they are to be met. The military/industrial/pharma conglomerate is not what the public needs to be overfed without accountability. Covid, as an example, is one such government over reach to fund private profit. It killed over a million Americans as well as destroying many more lives with chronic disabilities. The public became a commodity used for profit. Those are the grants that need to be cut. The public should not be funding private corporations that keep the profits while even preventing the public from having access to the research.
This article was written solely to promote the bogus and totally politicized DOGE being run by a man whose fascism is well known with his hatred for people who are not of his white supremacist upper crust demographic. He, like Trump, hates democracy and works to destroy it. One of the Koch brothers a few years ago cynically stated that they would use democratic processes to destroy the Constitution and that has been their goal since the New Deal which gave support to working people. These are people who despise working people and poor people no matter their race, gender or sexual identity. They work to keep people divided and distracted while they promote a totalitarian agenda. Trump does not even make any bones about this as his goal!
there is bias and it reeks, you are willfully guilty, take a bow
Run on sentences do not make a case. You then go on to defend "programs"
that were set up to grift. What about reason escapes you? TDS get help
huh? incredibly bad logic You are actually running cover for billions of dollars of Democrat grift to East Coast pretty boy institutions. This is not an overcharge it is hidden and deliberate grifting.
The gubmint is now being run as a business, that is why things are happening fast.
Your derangement syndrome is now public.
No one cares what you "would like" Your reasoning skills are severely lacking
In case you didn’t know, RFK Jr. is the head of HHS not the military. This article is about HHS and its funding of research at universities.
This article is about DOGE and its alleged curbing government waste. That includes HHS and all the government grants given thru HHS. In case you don't know this entire trajectory of $$ savings is focused on all aspects of the government financial spending. My point that you seem to avoid or not get is that what is focused on as waste is limited by the political bias/prejudices that are operating today with Trump and Musk and the rest of that crew.
But we know, if we are honest and open and thinking, that the military is supported by this galloping fascism while education is being attacked for destruction. Fascists always go after education as people who read and think can ask questions and are always seen as dangerous to tyrants.
Again, my point is right on target!
I assume that other funding agencies can have low F&A components (10-15%) because the government grants have such high F&A components. Clearly, a better balance is needed, but a sudden drop may be too hard. Some sort of phasing in process is needed.
They have more than enough in endowments and wealthy parents to make up for it. Gut the grift.
Perhaps so. But my point was only that using low F&A rates of other external funders as a comparison is problematic, as those rates will change if government rates change.
Then let’s go with the rate of the other “philanthropic” foundations like the one owned by the CheapsGates. If anything, we should be funding more trade schools to teach people how to fix the things we use on a daily basis instead of tossing everything in the trash.
you are suggesting a soft landing is possible and desirable
If you have a termite infested house it may be possible to rebuild it wall by wall.
However it is much more efficient and economic to raze it and start over.
E Musk is about a million miles north on such proposals and he gets this in 2 secs.
This has got to be reeled in... even 15% is waaay too much.. considering the net result of Most of the research is Americans health disintegrating over the last 50 years.. The standards for qualifying for these research grants have to be lifted dramatically.. the average citizen has gotten zero benefits from most of this rubbish.. So much of the NIH is just a dumpster fire.. the FNIH as well.. RFK Jr really needs to take a machete to both of these big Pharma captured criminal Enterprises..
I completely agree with this reporter. This kind of greed, graft and fraud hidden in University grants has got to stop. This does not end grants to Universities, it just reins in the abuse that is probably being used as a slush fund anyway! Nothing irks me more as a taxpayer!
If RFK, Jr. hasn't spoken directly about the university research grants, as the author states, then why is this column appearing in The Kennedy Beacon? It's just a rant by a Hollywood Reporter journalist who apparently has no experience with research budgets. This is an abuse of the KB substack by a Trump hack.
DOGE is an agency, not a person, therefore it is not "right"
E Musk is right, as was DJT, just saying
Cutting taxes as you cut wasteful spending. If government doesn’t lower taxes, what is the point of it all?
Yeah, & how much does it cost us to have DOGE?
There's a super-simple way to eliminate gov't waste: make the top 2% pay ALL.THE.TAXES. (Just because they happen to have all the money, you understand. They own 90% of all U.S. wealth; the rest of us hardly own anything.) For even more efficacy, prevent the 2% from being recipients of any gov't expenditure.
I didn’t think anyone was getting paid at DOGE!
Really? They're just doing what they do for free, in their spare time?