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Psephos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 11:48 PM
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120. A major national program...
...like, say, the one that developed the Space Shuttle?

Don't worry, I'm taking the cheap shot, and I admit it. But I have a hard time believing much good will come of a new major national program when I look around at the fruits of other major national programs. It would be a guaranteed pork fest, carried out by people whose incentive rapidly becomes bureaucratic turf protection first, and program objectives second. By the time the politicians are done with it, it will include appropriations for a seafood museum in Key West, a suspension foot bridge for Snake River Canyon, and an Irish-Swedish cultural pavilion in Buffalo.

I don't know the answer here, just observing what hasn't worked very well in the past.

Peace.
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