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> I'm tired of saying this, but I have to say it again. The NASA budget is four tenths of one penny on a tax dollar. If I held up the tax dollar, and I cut horizontally into it, four tenths of one percent of it's width, it doesn't even get you into the ink. So I will not accept a statement that says, we can't afford it!

> Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout; that sum of money is greater than the entire fifty year running budget of NASA.

> How much would you pay for the universe?

[1] "We Stopped Dreaming" - Neil deGrasse Tyson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIZU8cQWXc




> Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout; that sum of money is greater than the entire fifty year running budget of NASA.

I'm not disagreeing with the general sentiment, but I don't like when people mis-use this example. The bank bailout was repaid in full--it was a loan. It didn't in the end cost the government anything.


Do you have some more details on this? I can't find any specific statements anywhere that it was repaid in full, nor even that it was supposed to be repaid; but then again I'm not knowledgeable about this area and could be issuing the wrong search terms.


I don't have any links to the details, but I do recall that the US government put some restrictions in place to its debitors, especially on bonuses. This gave the banks a strong incentive to pay back its loans.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program

"TARP revenue has totaled $441.7 billion on $426.4 billion invested.[3]"




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