>>42: You probably could have afforded college, because your government wouldn't be taxing you to death.

Anyway, I tire of this argument, which I've had so many times before. And internet arguments convince nobody; none of you are going to wake up tomorrow and proclaim "by golly, that Albright fellow is right!"

You make some good points about the success of NASA, but I still contend that, if 1960s America had gone to private industry and said "Get us to the moon by the end of the decade" instead of creating a government entity to work it out, it would have been done faster and cheaper. So on that, I will agree to disagree, and hope you all will as well.