Market watch: Dow Jones drops approx. 300 points, 4% today. Drops below 7000 points.

[Bitmap Frogs]

Kasz216 said:

Bitmap Frogs said:

But that's the point I'm talking about. If the government were to take 5 billion from military spending and distributed it amongst privately managed investigation institutes -where the money would be under public scrutiny- as a society the US could get a better return on their tax money. We want less taxes and more efficiently managed, don't we?

To what gain?  There would be no one to buy said products... unless you suggest the government also buy a bunch of stuff it won't even use.

Or unless you are talking about weapons... which these deals already go to private companies, but putting them under public scruitney would be dangerous when it comes to keeping the things ours.

 

 

Well, for starters they might actually a better return on their investment. Less $$ for more science. Besides, while no one would be buying F22's, the science and technology would trickle down faster to society.