neil degrasse tyson laid several truth bombs on real time with bill maher tonight

You are the one that brought up shitty education. The lack of a focus on innovation and the scientific field is a huge problem for this country going forward. $6 billion would be a drop in the bucket if a US corporation could find a breakthrough technology in say, battery capacity or alternative fuels.
 
He's right that spending is warped, but no one currently elected into office wants to address that.

Military is spending close to $1T a year corabined on all forms of defense and covering veterans.

Medicare/medicaid is spending close to $1T a year.

NASA's budget is like $20B.
NSF's budget is like $10B.
NIH's budget is like $30B.

We spend ~$60B a year on hardcore scientific research, and thousanRAB of billions on wars and feeding poverty cycles.
 
Maher is a pretentious dick.

'seems like we won't do anything for the public good'
What an ass.

As if using the military to bend the world to our will doesn't benefit the public.
 
wait, so don't spend on telescope or welfare. so what's your propose to solve the starvation/poverty/education problem?

Don't spend money on telescope means firing all the people working on it, creating more poverty and more strain on the welfare programs
 
Its not like I'm saying fire 500k troops tomorrow and hire 500k scientists... It would have to be gradual thing...

More debt is bad but completely stopping spending will be even worse..

Need a corabination of more taxes, less spending and shift of focus..
 
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i agree. why bother discovering things and pushing the level of human understanding to a never before seen level when we can give some trailer trash more food stamp money.
 
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