When Ronald Reagan first proposed the International Space Station, it was supposed to cost $8 billion.
The total cost of the International Space Station, now nearly complete, is estimated to approach $100 billion.
We got decades of research, employment, frontier innovation and inspiration for generations of young people all over the world for that money.
Compare that to $185 billion Bush spent last fall, without much fanfare and questions, on AIG, and AIG is nowhere near assured survival.
Where did we get more bang for the buck?
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What Does 100 Billion Dollars Buy?
When Ronald Reagan first proposed the International Space Station, it was supposed to cost $8 billion.
The total cost of the International Space Station, now nearly complete, is estimated to approach $100 billion.
We got decades of research, employment, frontier innovation and inspiration for generations of young people all over the world for that money.
Compare that to $185 billion Bush spent last fall, without much fanfare and questions, on AIG, and AIG is nowhere near assured survival.
Where did we get more bang for the buck?
This entry was posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009 at 7:00 am and is filed under Commentaries, Political, Science. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.