+1. Where's my solar satellite beaming free power directly to my house? (Oh, that's right, the government has been monopolizing space exploration for the past 2/3 century too). Where's my nuclear pile providing cheap, unmetered electricity?

Hey, here's an idea. Maybe if the government wasn't subsidizing the monopoly electric companies by using eminent domain to force right-of-way across people's land, perhaps all that solar and wind power the socialists love so much might actually be economically viable. And might therefore have been researched enough to be even cheaper than current electrical costs. Perhaps we'd be energy independent and not subsidizing terrorist attacks against our fellow countrymen.

Nah, let's just keep the monopolies in place and pump money into trying to fix the problems they cause. What could possibly go wrong?