The main problem is medium-term planning. I'm not even thinking about the long-term; even planning in the medium term is impossible. For the time being, I don't even know whether I'm going to be able to re-hire my colleague on April 1. If all my projects are accepted at the same time, I'm going to have my back against the wall. That is my main concern.
As regards the federal applications, there is one other factor that I find rather amusing. We are asked to submit biennial applications. That's fine; I did that. However, for programming applications, they ask us to increase costs by 10% in the second year. However, the amount always stay the same. For the last five or six years, we have been receiving $73,500. I don't understand why we should still be receiving $73,500 in 2012-2013, if we increase our expenses by 10% and it's always 10%, then another 10%, and so on.