Skuzzy: The government is always going to control NASA miko. Too much of the research ends up in the DoD.
The legitimate defence-related research is fine with me. Most of it can and should be contracted to private companies but some certainly belongs to the government domain.
If you want to control how your taxes are spent, then contact your local representative about it.
But the majority is the one that decides here. So I may register my futile protest but it's not going to affect anything.
Complaining about it on this board is not going to make any difference at all. If you want to make a difference, then get out the pen, stamps, envelopes, and start knocking on doors.
It's not this kind of difference that I am looking to achieve.
Hundred years ago the idea of socialism and welfare state was repugnant to most of the western world. The monarchy was considered a normal form of government by most europeans. The ideas of welfare state were discredited.
There were always politicians pushing for more socialism but they got nowhere.
The socialism was only able to spread when the public opinion changed. Ultimately, it's all about the ideas.
So my intent is to help chnange the ideas so that people do not support oppressive government systems.
I understand that I am not likely to affect many people immediately, but even if I did not "convert" a soul, that does not mean my efforts are wasted.
This society is headed towards the major crisis. Once that crisis occurs, the people will be much more receptive to reexamining the old ideas and looking for the new ones.
Maybe they will remember what I said here and take a look. After all, I zeroed in on the austrtian school because they were most accurate over the 150 years of predictions that came true.
When societies suffers major upheavals, the public may switch to all kinds of terrrible ideologies - witness nazism in germany and bolshevism in Russia or Terror in France or Empire in Rome in the wake of collapse of the previous order.
Having a libertarian ideas available for people is not the worst choice.
miko