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"And just imagine the infrastructure we could have had for the cost of the Iraq war + the bank bailouts" It's impossible to sell such a huge plan without an im
by Herring 18y ago
"And just imagine the infrastructure we could have had for the cost of the Iraq war + the bank bailouts"
It's impossible to sell such a huge plan without an imminent threat/disaster. It makes no sense to think of other things we could do with that money.
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- Retric 18y agoYou can always make something up. See: Sending a man to the moon. Granted it might be hard to sell a rail project like the space race, but looking back on just how much of our GDP we where spending to play golf on the moon was insane.
- Herring 18y agoI'd argue the USSR was the imminent threat. According to wiki, Khrushchev openly & repeatedly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. The space race was a bid to regain technological supremacy after sputnik. Also back then it wasn't clear that it would be just the one trip.