[sammyg2]

NASA has an annual budget of $17.6 billion.

That's a big old pile of money. Year after year.
Yes they end up developing new technology but the cost to do so is astronomical (pun).
The inneficiency, the incredible cost, the huge waste, it all boils down to corporate welfare.
To suggest we are getting our money's worth through technological developments is bull.

It's government spending money to create jobs.
Reducing red tape, making it easier to run a business, those things would do more to create jobs and develop technology than throwing money at screwed up programs.

Making new laws and regulations to try and advance technology is a fool's game.
Why spend a $billion on something when a $million would get the same result?