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> No. Let's first feed the homeless and struggling, and fix the crisis that are affecting ordinary people.

I may be wrong, but it's not money that's the problem; there's plenty of money. (I would also point out the NASA budget is a miniscule spec of dust compared to the total budget.)

It seems to me the problem is organization and politics - actually doing the right things to address these problems.

It's like, say, Microsoft. They can't run a successful project to save their lives. This is an organizational and cultural problem. Large organization, lots of politics, enough money that success or failure is not critical to survival.

> Governments should have been able to do that up until now. Instead the government has been shipping money overseas and spending it on foreigners for far too long.

In what ways?



Just want to point out that there is also the health factor to homeless people, specifically brain damage from substance abuse. Once the brain is damaged to a certain degree it can’t be recovered and there is little to no help for that person. Most importantly is to catch people falling into homelessness and prevent extensive drug abuse in general.




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