I hate it when my keyboard or trackpad decide that I don't need to keep what I was writing.
I agree with you, it's an interesting sociological observation. I look at it as the difference between mandatory and discretionary funding. We pay our taxes and our elected congresscritters allocate that money to fund various things, our only input (which is ignored) funnels through our respective critters giving us theoretical input in to the system. In this case, I am voting with my entertainment feet. I have no problem throwing 1.5 movie viewings of money (for my wife and I) at this game and not spending a sous on seeing or reading the 50 Shades tripe.
I'm a kid of the '60s/'70s, and I know how much return we got on the dollars spent by NASA (i.e. A LOT). The ability of engineers and scientists to stretch their knowledge and imagination is amazingly beneficial, yet we've had a short-sighted congress for too many years and the program is now a faint shadow of what it was. It would be very interesting to see what the spending priorities would be if we had a direct voice on where our tax dollars are spent. I have an incurable genetic immune disorder and have lost lots of friends to cancer, so I definitely would like to see more spending on medical research.
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Date: 2015-02-15 07:44 pm (UTC)I agree with you, it's an interesting sociological observation. I look at it as the difference between mandatory and discretionary funding. We pay our taxes and our elected congresscritters allocate that money to fund various things, our only input (which is ignored) funnels through our respective critters giving us theoretical input in to the system. In this case, I am voting with my entertainment feet. I have no problem throwing 1.5 movie viewings of money (for my wife and I) at this game and not spending a sous on seeing or reading the 50 Shades tripe.
I'm a kid of the '60s/'70s, and I know how much return we got on the dollars spent by NASA (i.e. A LOT). The ability of engineers and scientists to stretch their knowledge and imagination is amazingly beneficial, yet we've had a short-sighted congress for too many years and the program is now a faint shadow of what it was. It would be very interesting to see what the spending priorities would be if we had a direct voice on where our tax dollars are spent. I have an incurable genetic immune disorder and have lost lots of friends to cancer, so I definitely would like to see more spending on medical research.