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Originally Posted by Charlatan
(imagine for a moment if Bush, instead of waging a war in Iraq had used his post 9/11 political capital to push for America to break the bonds of oil dependency, to push for a technological shift by inspiring a generation of youth to think differently, to seed technological developments and create new forms of green industry all in the way that Kennedy's push to the moon inspired and brought about change)..
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All the money in the world means nothing without that scientific breakthrough, which often happens by pure accident. I think the 135 billion spent on it currently should be sufficient.