Yup. As an engineer, I know I’m more inspired by government handouts, welfare programs and Obumo’s relentless drive toward mediocrity.
Say what you will, the US space program was the platform from which engineers were born, new technologies developed, and limitations destroyed. Contrast that with phoney wind and solar power companies that were economically feasible only with massive subsidies and yielded little in the way of new technologies.
Exactly right! And you are in good company. Neil Armstrong argued this same point in his Congressional testimony last Fall ...
Without an inspirational space program, Armstrong argued, the US stands to lose its engineering edge. "A substantial current and long range threat is, and will be," he said, "the downward trend in engineering degrees granted in this country and the substantial increase in such graduates in other parts of the world."
I find it sad that you would have to debate this point or counter spurious allegations that the best and brightest engineers are motivated by government handouts, on a conservative website.