[MisterBastahrd]

And I'm fine with it. We've got trillions of dollars worth of companies that do very little but leech off of the rest of us and utilize the vast wealth they've accumulated to degrade our society in order to perpetuate their own existence.

[bilbo0s]

I'm not going to argue against the veracity of what you're saying, but I would caution against cutting off our nose to spite our face.

I think what we're seeing is that there is obviously a need to rein in some of those corporate excesses you're alluding to, and try to protect the research core that we need to move the nation, and humanity in general, forward.