Taking the government for a ride is expected behavior if the government let's itself be taken for a ride. The government can change and enforce laws as well as

Taking the government for a ride is expected behavior if the government let's itself be taken for a ride. The government can change and enforce laws as well as set the parameters when it funds private research. This reminds me of the sham privatizations that occurred after the immediate collapse of the Soviet Union where the transferred public resources to the private sector.