The government isn't funding a lot of those things now. Also, Europe has access to the new technology that came out of the US government funding so it is irrelevant to bring it up. Europe has access to the internet, they have a space program, etc.
Actually I do think it's very relevant to point that most of the most valuable US innovations were state funded as a reply to someone asserting the absolute superiority of private VC funding. The USA is very interventionist for a country promoting free markets as close to a religion.
I am not entirely sure what this has to do with Europe however.
