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The same reason that, a few years ago, "Keynesian Economics" was a conservative scare-word when it came to any public spending except war. Think of all the war jobs.
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People say that the Space Race was about "beating the commies", but conspicuously, rockets are also useful for military ventures. If it were only about proving how great capitalism is, we would have a Rail Race.
If it were only about proving how great capitalism is, we would have a Rail Race.
Don't threaten me with a good time. We could go really wild and have an Affordable Healthcare Race.
“China enslaves their workers so we have to do the same!”
"Will those slaves be put to build infrastructure?"
"No, they will move boxes of funkopops and fry potatos"
I think this is a good argument but to make it more palatable to porky you gotta invert it and pitch Saudi Arabia as the blueprint (though I guess there's nothing fundamentally different between Elon's hyperloop and the typical Saudi projects that never materialize)
China is going to drown out American ingenuity unless we declare a war on science and spend billions researching things
You can't be beaten at science if you get rid of science. 
Or MK-Ultra
But that wasn't public money. It was CIA's own private money, that they righteously earned defending democracy by selling crack in poor neighborhoods.