Government never comes up with anything, other than new ways to fleece the taxpayers out of their money. Granted, the government has a propensity for throwing a shitload of money into different things. But the majority of groundbreaking innovations were accomplished through the private sector, with private investors.
Take fracking for instance: For the first time in this country's history, we actually became a "net exporter" of oil and gas. Do you even know what that means? That means that we were exporting more oil and gas than we were importing.
Now please if you would, explain to me how your precious "government" had a hand in that? They didn't. In fact, your idiotic "government" under Crappy-Pants McBiden decided to nix a pipeline that would have made us more energy-independent while at the same time, giving Russia the nod to begin their own pipeline.
Fuck your government in the ass.
Manhattan Project - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Smallpox Eradication Programme - SEP (1966-1980) government-funded
National Aeronautics and Space Administration government funded
I can go on and on.