Political compass test

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

First, where do you think "public funding" comes from? The public, taxpayers who in a capitalist system have enough wealth to tax for incredibly expensive ventures like NASA (to which we owe much gratitude). Second, it is a capitalist economic system that empowers human ingenuity to tremendous achievement, via revenue generation and robust competition.

First of all, that public funding comes from the government. All governments have money by one method or another. The government can be either democratically elected or not or have one economic system or another.
Second of all, NASA is getting less and less funding with each passing administration thanks the results of this capitalist system and the people who nearly destroyed it with stupid investments and wastes of money.
Third of all, your second point has no basis. People like you deride the Europeans for being socialist but they're the ones that built the Large Hadron Collider, putting them at the forefront of physics research. China is catching up to us economically and have their own scientific advancements despite having a truely socialist government.

Not to mention that our educational system is so inefficient and terrible at producing the inteded results that some third world countries with education funding a fraction of ours is educating children better than us. I'm not even going to touch on the abuses of health insurance to this country's overall health.