Originally Posted by jungle

Private companies provided the technology, taxpayers funded the effort. Government brokered the deal, none of this happens without funding from a robust economy or borrowing well beyond your means.

Understand that government has no money except that which it confiscates. Many mistake politics for real economic outcomes, nothing could be further from the truth.

Government did not build this effort, taxpayers did, thank one today. In fact, given the combined input of about half of the US people and government, we could not fund a bottle rocket.