Because it's a blunt truth. Developing technology that's new costs a lot of money and in its first generation is extremely unprofitable. This is why the government has traditionally been the one to develop such technology as it doesn't need to worry about profit. If, however, the USA followed libertarian ideals we'd still have our most advanced farming technology being the ass end of a mule and be using muzzle-loading smoothbores that couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.