[quote=AN][quote=craptcha]Expanded quote, from your link
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.[/quote]IIRC, the first internet got funded through defense. Aren’t we talking about cutting defense budget?[/quote]
The Internet is already invented and we don’t need to invent it again.
Also, defense budget is not entirely used on DARPA. It also pays for Duke Cunningham’s Del Mar house and few other minor expenditures. Do you want to know how much you pay to have a Navy officer reassigned from Miramar to Germany for a year and have his family (and his truck and his dog) keep him company during that year?
