Re: Could this be a model for the United States?

From: Joann Evans (bondage_at_frontiernet.net)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 02:17:59 GMT

Rodney Kelp wrote:
>
> We can pour billions and billions of dollars for war.

   Defense isn't cheap, even when you're not involved in a conflict
somewhere.

> We put billions on
> cosmetics.

   'We' are not taxpayers, in this instance. Taxes *must* be paid (the
IRS can often get you, when no one else can), cosmetics are pretty much
optional, trust me. No central body allocates how much money is spent on
eyeliner and lipstick.

> Now billions on statins.

   I don't know if 'billions' applies here, but getting a new drug
through the approval process (preferably while a patent is still in
effect) isn't cheap, either. And a drug that does signifigant good, for
a signifigant number of people is worth it.

   And that's not tax money, either, it's a pharmeceutical company's own
money at risk.

> Is there no change left for the space
> program?

   Depends. What kind of 'space program' (which also deals in
'billions') do you want?

   And how much space activity should be government responsibility,
anyway? 

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