In next year's budget, the city will be spending 70 percent more on the
central staff bureaucracy than under the last year of Mayor Bloomberg's
administration, and 34 percent more on
central staff
expenses.»
The Obama
Administration has allocated «a disproportionate increase in the amount of federal funds» for earth science «at the
expense of and compared to Exploration and Space Operations, Planetary Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be
central to the core mission of NASA.»