@rbreich When I was a boy voices for social justice and responsible government spending alerted me to the possibility that the space program, landing astronauts on the moon etc, which inspired me to adopt a lifelong love of learning, were wasteful expenditures when so many Americans were impoverished. Well … 40 years later government spending like that is all but unthinkable & all we have in exchange is a mega-wealthy American oligarchy, a vanishing middle class and even worse poverty.