> Countless examples abound of government funded innovation.
Add to that nuclear power. ...only Thorium reactor research funding was killed -- because it didn't produce byproducts for nuclear weapons. I am sure the congressman who killed it would also support the "If not us then who?" questions.
And to answer that question: The rest of the freakin' world! Let them step up and police the commerce. Create a void, and someone will fill it.
