[pj_mukh]

"where the winners get space ships and the losers die,"

The Social Security budget is $1.4 Trillion, just the federal welfare budget is >$1Trillion (not including state budgets), and then there's medicare. Meanwhile, the NASA budget is <$25B (with SpaceX's operating budget and profits being a fraction of that)

I wish we lived in that simple of a world. But we don't.

[permo-w]

this is a complete non-sequitur. the US social security budget does not go to one person or a small group of oligarchs

[pj_mukh]

“the winners get space ships and the losers die, they'd call you crazy”

Was the original quote. I just showed that you could get rid of all rockets ever made and it would be a rounding error for any funds used to save the “losers” from dying.

How is that a non-sequitur?