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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (130234)	1/2/2001 3:47:57 PM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 1572600

Dear Daniel: Yes, government research is grossly overpriced and does not yield the results of industry for the amount of money spent. There are far many more wasteful government sponsored R&D in environment, housing, medicine, transportation, commerce, economy, and social studies, especially. For every "wasteful" (your definition) Military R&D program, there is over fifty social studies R&D programs that yield less than no benefit. That is cost us more than the programs cost because they make a bad problem worse. Almost all of the thousands of welfare type programs actually made the ones it was supposed to help even more dependent than less, more poor than they were before, less able to find work, mostly because the rewards were skewed to staying on the program far more than leaving it. This was pointed out how many millions of times, yet your left leaning scientists still claimed that it was a minor abberation and this next program would fix it (they forgot to end the prior program so that even more money was wasted and it even helped the next program fail too). Could we eliminate waste in government R&D? We have been trying for thousands of years and we are making some progress but have not eliminated the waste yet. By your definition, we should stop trying to eliminate waste. Matter of fact, one of the reasons we have been unable to stop waste is that we do not have a good definition and thus, a method to calculate waste in any program, R&D or not. Any definition so far has had a propblem that elimination of that item seems to stop R&D from ever getting a successful result. Perhaps the chaos of R&D is the reason why so much appears to be wasted, when it is really necessary to spend it but, we do not know why. Pete