You misunderstand. I'm not talking about Bitconnect. I'm talking about the so called projects govt wastes our hard earned tax dollars on. For example, NASA gets billions of dollars?
While governments do waste a lot of money you made a big mistake picking on NASA as they get a miniscule amount, less than 1% of the US federal budget (currently they receive 0.4% in 2019) and are one of the few agencies which has been
found to actually exceed the average in terms of return and efficiency.What do we get back from all those "space walks"?
Beyond the obvious like weather satellites, GPS, better tools for planning and increasing crop yields there are spinoffs, technology and inventions developed at NASA which had uses outside of it. Since 1976, NASA created 1,400 inventions that later became products or services. These include kidney dialysis machines, CAT scanners and even freeze-dried food.
Educate yourself:
You can start with last year:
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2017/pdf/Spinoff2017.pdfAnd there are these...
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2016/pdf/Spinoff2016.pdfhttps://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2015/pdf/Spinoff2015_508.pdfhttps://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2013/pdf/Spinoff2013.pdfSpacewalks have been vital to repairing scientific instruments (most notably the Hubble Space Telescope) as well as maintaining the International Space Station.
Beyond that, the purpose of space exploration is to explore. Those spacewalks help us by developing the skills and tools it will take for astronauts to be able to live and repair their living space in a self sufficient way, eventually far from the Earth.
Every dollar spent on NASA adds $10 to the economy. Find me something else the government spends less than 1% on that does that.
For all it does, NASA receives just 0.4 percent of the $4.001 trillion FY 2018 federal budget. Compare that to the Department of Defense. Its budget is $574 billion, or 13 percent of the total. DoD's budget would pay for 30 NASAs.
NASA which only receives $19.1 billion dollars also receives less than these other six departments.
Health and Human Services – $65.3 billion.
Veterans Administration – $78.8 billion.
Education – $59 billion.
Homeland Security – $44.1 billion
Housing and Urban Development – $31.2 billion.
State Department – $28.2 billion.
So next time, educate yourself before you talk about something you don't know.
Bitconnect was always a scam, a pyramid scheme crossed with a good old-fashioned ponzi. NASA is not a scam.
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