See link below. Best one-liner: "Just as we cannot fix an overweight plane by removing an engine, we should not attemot to fix a deficit problem by removing America's ability to compete." Thank you, --Ray ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:38:09 -0800 From: "Graf, Norman A." <[log in to unmask]> To: lcd-l <[log in to unmask]> Dear Colleagues, Thomas Mason and Persis Drell, respectively, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, have contributed their impressions of what effect the House budget cuts would have on US economic competitiveness. The article can be found in the Washington Post's "Topic A" column, available online at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022505887.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 Sincerely, Norman Graf