>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/technology/us-sets-goal-for-faster-supercomputers-much-much-faster.html
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>Will Fox News call this one Obamabyte?
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>I have no idea, but IMHO, this is one more thing that would be handled much better by the public sector. I notice that the article talks about yet another government bureaucracy being created to manage this. So what is the goal? To spend even more money - money we don't have? For crying out loud, we are 18 trillion dollars in debt. I don't have children or grandchildren so I do not have to worry about what all this debt is going to do to them.
But you do. Keep spending money we don't have and this country will turn into Greece....

In general I agree with you about the crazy rise in the deficit but the deficit can't be attributed to programs like this one.
This one at least has the potential to do some economic good.

Regarding the deficit- at the millennium, there was a serious chance that the US debt would completely disappear. Greenspan talked about a T-Bill-less economy.
Two needless wars, massive tax cuts, bridges to nowhere, a vastly bloated prison population, the creation of several huge bureaucracies (TSA, DNI) and a major financial crisis have put us in the mess that we're in.