>Did you earnestly expect any other outcome?

Nope. We already lost the war years ago before it even began, no amount of throwing money at this war was going to snatch victory from the bowels of defeat. CHIPS was a stupid waste of money at the outset and it is still a stupid waste of money after the fact because it arrived too late.

But that doesn't change my sentiment as a tax payer that I want my tax dollars back. Even moreso because Intel is now gutting their R&D when their problem is they are behind in R&D.