These days we have yearly budget deficits of a trillion dollars. At some point, we’ll be paying more on interest for the national debt than the Apollo program:

These days we have yearly budget deficits of a trillion dollars. At some point, we’ll be paying more on interest for the national debt than the Apollo program: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/business/economy/us-government-debt-interest.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/business/economy/us-gover... I imagine as a percentage the government spends a lot less on research. R&D pays future dividends. Most of what we waste our money on now has little future value.