Reply #9: Let's get some perspective [View All]

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

Missile defense may be worthy of scientific study, but they are spending $10 billion every year on it. Compare this to NSF's entire budget of $5.58 billion (fiscal year 2004). Will this missile defense research produce twice the scientific value each year of ALL the research NSF produces yearly? Not even close! In the last twenty years it hasn't produced as much scientific value as one year of NSF research. So from the perspective of scientific research then it is a complete waste of money.