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Good to know you're still nuttier than a fruitcake.And yes the right is anti science. They cut off government funding to science that goes to the greater good because they think the private sector will fund it if its profitable or a good idea. Here is the problem Allieblabla. Many of the greatest inventions today came from government programs. Government funded experiments. Those scientists ideas showed promise, like solar or battery power, but weren't practical enough for private investors, IE the stock market. So if it weren't for government, we wouldn't have things like, oh, the internet.
After the internet -which was considered an utter and complete failure until someone found a way to turn an evil profit off of it- you'd be hard pressed to come up with a list of unarguable successes of these nondescript "great inventions" discovered by gubmint experiments.
Aww, come on Dude. I'll agree that the gubmint screws up most of what they touch, but many of the things we take for granted today were a direct result of Kennedy's challenge to go to the moon within 10 years. The gubmint's space program generated innovation, inventions and technologies that had once been considered science fiction or hadn't even been thought of at all.