Organics found on Mars!

Hello all:

As I am a contractor to NASA I know I am a bit biased but NASA provides so much to our society that usually isn't spoken. What other company will fund a scientist long enough to get a proof of concept and let him leave to start a company what provides that very concept to the world?

Now, I don't go in with my eyes closed. I see waste everywhere in NASA. But I usually see it in the contracts with the big suppliers who are DOD contractors. I personally believe that if more contracts were given to slightly smaller contractors we would save 1/2 to 3/4 of EVERY budget item.

Here is some of the good from NASA though:

NASA Technologies Benefit Our Lives

Your health care very much is affected by NASA! Innovation needs creativity and creativity requires lofty goals!

Personally, my priorities of tax expenditures are:
1. Schools (because education is the "silver bullet").
2. Public libraries.
3. Infrastructure (roads, bridges and the like).
4. Scientific R&D.
5. Defence.
When NASA put astronauts on the moon, I thought (and still think) that it was the most awesome thing ever! Like many of you, I was glued to the TV that whole day!
Just my $0.02.

The schools I totally agree with. But I personally am trying to build a private library. I just want the price of books to drop. It seems the things that I am intrigued by are so expensive. Both in literature and hobbies.