Quote:Where did NASA get the money for everything they did again?  If not for taxpayers, NASA would still be using slingshots to launch rocks. 

 

Well if you want to play the recursive money source game then we could just say that all the money came from the government, since we use a fiat currency.

 

Of course I don't think that was the point you wanted to make.

 

Industry and creation can be part of government, the idea that wealth can only come from private industry is incorrect. We can look at NASA inventions, we can look at the DARPA project known as the internet, we can look at all of the beneficial and profitable inventions that come out of public university laboratories.

 

The reason for government's failings in today's age are due to ideology, not capability.

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