I did a quick google search on it, and can't find anything other then a $3,000 report that talks about market share of basements homes.

If I had to guess, a majority of homes in the country have basements. Almost all the upper half of the country have them, and I think there are more houses in the top half. He lives in Texas, and very few houses in the south have basements (I grew up in Dallas).

As far as I can tell?

Canada likes decoration.

Actual article can be found here

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rma/dpr/03-04/CIHR-IRSC/cihr-irscd3401_e.asp

It talks about public grants but i beleive the graph is just per capita in general since it's talking about how to keep top research teams in the UK.  And I can't see how the government could spend that large percent of the US GDP on grants.

you know why it's that way? It's because there's a shit load of money to be made with new medicine

@sguy78 if you had an ounce of common knowledge about housing in the US you would know that most houses don't have basements but keep on living in your own universe where most of the houses in the US have basements whatever makes you happy. But don't be surprised if you come across as a total asshole to the majority of people you meet.

Yeah.  Kinda my point.

If there isn't a shit load of money to be made... and that money goes away...

it doesn't get replaced.

A LARGE chunk of the worlds medical funding suddenly goes down the drain.

Wouldn't this negativly effect future discoveries drastically and in turn negativly effect future healthcare?

Yawn...I think I'll do fine. I don't go around insulting random people like you do buddy.

Chris,

I think more houses have basements. If not, it's damn close. Also, you might want to cut back on the personal attacks. It will get you banned, and if I had to guess, your comments in this thread already warrant it (you did call him an asshole).

@TheRealMafoo check the being of the thread he's the one that's paranoid thinking that everyone is trying to get him. Also you forgetting that a large number of people are living in apartments so my point about basements is still valid.

About (+-)50% of research funding comes from big pharmaceutical compagnies and they tend to be more competive then cooperative some if compagnie A discover cure for aids they won't give the info to compagnie B so compagnie B will still spend money to cure aids, what I want to say with that is a lot of that 67$ goes to waste so more money doesn't mean more cures but , yes there's a but, more money doesn't hurt either that's why the Us is the leading country in new cures

Revenue Rank 2008[citation needed]	Company	Country	Total Revenues (USD millions)	Healthcare R&D 2008 (USD millions)	Net income/ (loss) 2008 (USD millions)	Employees 2008
1	Pfizer (with Wyeth)	U.S.	70,818	NA	12,760	137,127
2	Johnson & Johnson	U.S.	61,095	NA	10,576	119,200
3	GlaxoSmithKline	United Kingdom	45,447	6,373	10,432	103,483
4	Hoffmann–La Roche	Switzerland	40,315	NA	8,135	78,604
5	Sanofi-Aventis	France	39,997	NA	7,204	99,495
6	Novartis	Switzerland	39,800	NA	11,946	98,200
7	AstraZeneca	UK/Sweden	29,559	NA	5,959	67,400
8	Abbott Laboratories	U.S.	25,914	NA	3,606	68,697
9	Merck & Co.	U.S.	(2008) 23,850	4,678	7,808	74,372
10	Bristol-Myers Squibb	U.S.	19,977	NA	2,165	42,000
11	Eli Lilly and Company	U.S.	18,634	NA9	2,953	40,600
12	Amgen	U.S.	14,268	3,366	2,950	48,000
13	Boehringer Ingelheim	Germany	13,284	1,977	2,163	43,000
14	Baxter International	U.S.	10,378	614	1,397	38,428
15	Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.	Japan	10,284	1,620	2,870	15,000
16	Genentech	U.S.	9,284	1,773	2,113	33,500
17	Procter & Gamble	U.S.	8,964	n/a	10,340	29,258
18	Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	Israel	8,408	495	546	26,670
19	Astellas Pharma	Japan	7,850	1,435	1,122	23,613
20	Daiichi Sankyo	Japan	7,158	1,459	671	20,100
21	Novo Nordisk	Denmark	6,520	1,063	1,086	15,358
22	Eisai	Japan	5,583	926	604	14,993
23	Merck KGaA	Germany	5,175	772	1,258	13,900
24	Alcon	U.S.	4,897	512	1,348	13,500
25	SINOPHARM	China	4,700	???	???	???
26	Akzo Nobel	Netherlands	4,694	741	1,449	13,000
27	UCB	Belgium	4,426	1,024	492	12,741
28	Nycomed	Switzerland	4,264	n/a	-105	10,533
29	Forest Laboratories	U.S.	3,442	941	454	9,649
30	Solvay	Belgium	3,268	533	1,026	9,000
32	Allergan	U.S.	3,063	1,056	-127	8,423
33	Gilead Sciences	U.S.	3,026	384	-1,190	6,772
34	CSL	Australia	2,788	161	454	6,400
35	Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.	Japan	2,787	467	328	5,962
36	Biogen Idec	U.S.	2,683	718	218	5,907
37	Bausch & Lomb	U.S.	2,292	197	15	5,830
38	Taiho Pharmaceutical Co.	Japan	2,069	244	132	5,756
39	King Pharmaceuticals	U.S.	1,989	254	289	5,191
40	Watson Pharmaceuticals	U.S.	1,979	131	-445	5,126
41	Mitsubishi Pharma	Japan	1,945	403	208	5,111
42	Shire	UK	1,797	387	278	4,958
43	Cephalon	U.S.	1,764	403	145	4,913
44	Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma	Japan	1,763	350	193	3,750
45	Kyowa Hakko Kogyo	Japan	1,698	268	108	2,895
46	Shionogi	Japan	1,640	320	159	2,868
47	Mylan Laboratories	U.S.	1,612	104	217	2,800
48	H. Lundbeck	Denmark	1,552	329	186	2,515

I'm not being paranoid, you are attacking. Wake up buddy. I mean do you realize it's a figure of speech? Why are you so stuck up on the number of basements in this country?