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Utter, total debunked baloney.Think of all the advances we have today thanks to the Space Program. You can be sure as hell the private sector wouldn't have made that happen.
Urban Legends of NASA: What They Did Not Invent
First of all, that's a bunch of BS. Thousands of innovations and technologies occurred as a result of the race for space. NASA didn't actually invent those technologies themselves for the most part, but the framework for the advances would never have existed if the Space Program didn't happen. You ever hear of "cause and effect"?
And how about the internet that the government funded the production of, or the inter-continental phone lines, or the railways, or the Hoover Dam, or all the other infrastructure projects that are used by thousands of industries and millions of people across America, and provide millions of JOBS to millions of Americans.
Do all those jobs just "not count" because they aren't "real jobs"? That's a giant line of horse-hockey.
The Government CREATED those jobs, and laid the way for the creation of millions of more jobs that would not have been possible without the pre-existing infrastructure that the government provided.
And if you think any private industry would have laid out the massive amounts of capital required for any of those things, you're out of you mind.
Red herring.Oh, and to the OP, I guess you don't consider being a soldier to be a "job"?
I guess folks who have been in the military, like me, weren't really performing a worthwhile service, we were just living off the public dole and wasting the taxpayer's money, right?
A legitimate function of lawful de jure government is protecting the nation against military force from without....The natural collectivized extension of the individual right of self-defense, a "job" that already exists.
It's not a "red herring", it's a perfectly legitimate point.
If the military were not paid for by government, it would still be needed, and would still have to be paid for by private industry to protect their interests. Thus the military is a source of "Jobs" that are necessary for us all.
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