Now watch as they give that $250B away to government contractors who then spend the money to offer more useless services to sell to the government. They'd be better off investing $250B into education and changing the curriculum to focus on open source initiatives. At least China is good at sharing ideas, even if they supposedly steal them from other companies. The issue with tech innovation in the US isn't that it needs more money, it is because it is a system designed around copyrights and proprietary BS that tends to attract the least innovation. Take Microsoft for example, they are now basically forced to adapt to Linux because their billions of dollars couldn't compete against an open source solution.