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A few thoughts of why we are not so active with our NASA programs today:
When the total bill for the Iraq Oil War is tallied - including the 60 years of veteran care - we could have sent 80 million Americans to college on a four year scholarship - even with the present cost to date (Jan/2012) we could have sent over 100 Million Americans to college for a full year.
With our incredibly successful War On Drugs we have managed to put over a million people in jail, 4/5th of which are in there for petty drug charges. We continue to destroy countries in South America and around the world with this fantastically successful War on Drugs which we have engaged in for about 40 years now.
We continue with the Reagan policies of giving tax incentives for our corporations to move off shore for as Ronald Reagan said "We need to remain competitive".
We allow corporate "individuals" to split up into separate groups - move their profit centers to countries like Dubai and keep their loss centers here in the US so they pay no taxes.
The largest drug seller in the US pays no taxes in the US - they have a small offshore location.
And you wonder why we are easy off the technology investment?
We have idiots that believe only private enterprise should undertake what is best done by a group effort - but the mere idea of a "group effort" makes them puke.
Our politicians are required by us to spend 80% of their time refilling their coffers and we blame them for being sellouts? Yet if any CEO were gone 80% of the time we would consider that completely unacceptable (though we would probably pay them 500 times the average wage).
It is amazing we are still the number one world power - at some point the insanity will ebb - the question is whether it is because of self-effort or happenstance - I cannot image anything but happenstance - and if that is the route we continue on - lets just hope the cake-eaters die soon.
