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The above article sort of reminds me of the good old days when the King or the Courts or the Pope would imprison or put to death anybody who wanted to journey out to sea and risk falling off the edge of the earth, or suggest that the Earth was not the center of the universe ...I'm using some bad poetic license there to stretch my point.
I'm generally in favor of spending some significant resources on pushing the limits of our scientiifc knowledge. Hey, how long after 1493 would America have been discovered by Europeans if not for that; or understanding our solar system/universe; or the development of these stupid machines I'm typing ...errr I mean keyboarding... on now; or untold numbers of important medical breakthroughs; etc.
I'm also strongly in favor of responsible spending and allocation of our resources, so it seems to me we have a LOT of room for improvements in how we spend our money and better control spending of money we don't have; e.g. the war department, strange subsidies, narrow benefit niche economic bills, etc.
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