re: The history lesson Americans refuse to accept and keep repeating

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Completely? It's wrong for the government to use taxpayer money to seed projects that would provide a significant benefit to all taxpayers? Seeding inventors to develop manned flight was some crazy gamble? And if the government's record of investment isn't 100% perfect is that a lesson that the government should never fund invention?

These all or nothing arguments are sophomoric at best.

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Yes. Completely. The government should buy the best product the free market produces. It should not be picking who they think "will" produce the best product. That is a gamble. Buying known commodity, is not a gamble and will still benefit everyone at a lesser cost.