Everything Musk has done was built with private money, or as a contractor selling a product or service to gov't (which as we all know, builds and makes nothing) -- he's not some welfare case sitting on his ass cashing a monthly gov't check, so knock off the stupid and groundless accusations, they just make you look like idiots.
Unless that's what you're going for -- "Musk, you didn't build that."
He does have that huckster marketing vibe like Barnum, but he's also delivering each and every step of the way, regardless of whether he misses his original timetables -- a problem that has in impact on him and his companies, not on taxpayers.
SpaceX will be on Mars before NASA returns to the Moon -- but unless the fed gubmint gets smart, funding on the SLS, a rewarmed STS being built by everyone BUT SpaceX, will still be going out, with NASA having nothing to show for it.
See today’s American thinker article on Musk. Sorry tootsie roll, but sucking down $5,000,000,000 taxpayer dollars ISN’T private funds in my book