The entire budget, and debt and defecit mess is made up of nothing but "oh, it's only a few billion. It won't matter."
That's not entirely accurate. Everyone's favorite pet spending program, Social Security, constitutes over one fifth of the federal budget, roughly half a trillion dollars, or just under 5% of GDP.
All that money, and, as far as I know, no one is expecting Social Security to give rise to any life-changing technological advances.
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That's not entirely accurate. Everyone's favorite pet spending program, Social Security, constitutes over one fifth of the federal budget, roughly half a trillion dollars, or just under 5% of GDP.
All that money, and, as far as I know, no one is expecting Social Security to give rise to any life-changing technological advances.
(I've no idea what this means, but it seemed the Slashdot thing to do...)
The Jargon File has an entry explaining "I for one welcome our new X overlords."