used to have moments in time when we did come up with big ideas i mean we put them in the mood for criseyde right where it is a big ideas why isn't anyone seem to be thinking big. that's a really good question you know if you look back to the nineteenth century the federal government gave land grants to railroads so that they could build tracks across this country to deliver goods to people we gave land grants federal government gave land grants to universities so that students could study engineering in agriculture these are the great state universities and even universities like mit and cornell started this way in the twentieth century we created the interstate highway system the federal government did that under eisenhower the federal government contributed a great deal to the development of the aeronaut extended street and you know people joke about al gore and the internet but the fact of the matter is the federal government was absolutely essential to the development of early computers and the development of the internet so we've been and as you say we put a man on the moon and yet we