In relation to graduate funding; I respectfully disagree that funding for graduate students is lacking. In fact, graduate students are the bread-and-butter to run science on the budget. In fact, there are way too many graduate students, especially PhDs. I do, however, agree postdoc funding is lacking severely and that needs to change. Also, universities should have funds to hire more research personnel besides teaching and tenure-track positions. Universities churning out PhD students en masse, but there are hardly any opportunities for those who decide to try it in academia/research. I would actually go as far as to say; if universities allow publicly funded labs to be "managed" by grad students/postdocs and not to have permanent research staff to look after million dollar investments, these universities should no longer receive graduate funds. The system needs to change, but this goes way beyond increasing funds.