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If it sounds dumb, it's because it's meant to. "Buy them if they fail" debate leads to more onerous alternative proposals. The US is on a mission to make Skynet for Israel or China wins. It's hard for them to fail when Skynet will pay high prices for their datacenter time. But if they fail, it will be because they are too expensive, and "American people" owning them doesn't pay American people anything if they are stuck losing money forever. And the other alternatives that stem from debate, is "why not just throw government money at bubble top rates?"