[Repeal The 17th]

And just whose a$$ was this half a billion dollars pulled out of?

[basil]

That’s a good question-—and I’m wondering why the president of MIT would know anything about manufacturing..................

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

And just whose a$$ was this half a billion dollars pulled out of?

[Mr. Wright]

This guy cannot spend $1 without it being appropriated from the U.S. Congress.

[baddog 219]

[Mom MD]

Yours and mine

[Soothesayer9]

Exactly what I was thinking. Where is the money coming from? Most likely either printing it out of thin air (devaluing the dollar) or taxes.

[RetSignman]

Reinventing the wheel.

[AndyJackson]

What does anyone think that the government can do investing $500M. In a $13T economy this represents an investment of 0.005%. Forgetting about the fact that the government has no clue how to invest in this sort of thing, it is about has effective as pi$$ing in a hurricane.