Although I'm sorry that making our space programs more pro-entrepreneurial could temporarily displace certain tax leeches who consequently prefer to attack the messenger rather than address the message and its supposed shortcomings, I'm NOT sorry enough to be willing to abandon the [in my case 100% volunteer and altruistic] mission of trying to [basically ANONYMOUSLY] help shape our space program into a self-sustaining, increasingly popular and wealth-generating, jobs-creating endeavor. Here's one of my more recent posts here. Who can say, with a credibly straight face (and hopefully enough persuasive reasoning to back it), that these kinds of messages warrant censorship?
Is Bush "promising us the Moon" (for sometime AFTER he retires, mind you) in exchange for our supporting the Shuttle now, while Jeb's still governor and thereby able to benefit from its squanderou$ launches in Flori-duh? You praise Bush's proposals as representing a jobs program for the industry. You may be right but the more pro-entrepreneurial his proposals wind up being...the more jobs there will likely be, wouldn't you agree? Why should NASA bureaucrats get to be king-makers? Isn't that the kind of socialist scheme that brought us marvels like the X33? With our country's record high $6.9 trillion dollar national debt, rapidly aging population and record high foreign trade deficit (not to mention an increasingly hefty domestic one), we don't seem to have that much of a margin of error any longer. Why not demand that Bush do it right, by recognizing private property rights in space, pushing for tax incentives, and making NASA follow DARPA's lead by offering competitive prizes instead of king-anointing contracts? Otherwise, wouldn't flags and footprints missions actually hurt our cause by making folks in the U.S. space industry seem like money-wasters, even as the likes of Burt Rutan and Bezos get overshadowed in the resulting redundancy for which statist governmental agencies are famous?
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Why censor reform proposals and their justifications? Sure, pro-entrepreneurial reforms could displace some, but they could empower many far more.
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- Rich/spaceprojects.com, status of posting
- Boy, this sure turned out to be a mature discussion of the issue, didn't it? (n/t)
- Ok, heres what I will do
- An observation and my vote
- the real issue is this
- Why be so self-important, truth-denying, competitive prizes-HATING and downright misleading?
- He should addopt a URL free handle or can his ass. (n/t)
- Even as your profanity, misspelling and (n/t) are fine?
- Ok then.
- You fail to see what the health care vs. space expenditures debate has to do with space? WOW.
- Ok then.
- Even as your profanity, misspelling and (n/t) are fine?
- re: Rich/spaceprojects.com, status of posting
- My feelings on Woodlock, and the spammer....
- R.L. is on the right track
- Gary, by any chance do you receive tax dollars for a living?
- This has nothing to do with our jobs
- Ditto (n/t)
- So you receive tax dollars, but your resentfulness of me has NOTHING to do with my pro-entrepreneurial stance...
- This has nothing to do with our jobs
- Gary, by any chance do you receive tax dollars for a living?
- The use of a 100% NONcommercial handle minimizes the potential for (often misinformed) ad hominem attacks.
- R.L. is on the right track
- Ban him -- He's spam and nothing more (n/t)
- No
- No
- Why censor reform proposals and their justifications? Sure, pro-entrepreneurial reforms could displace some, but they could empower many far more.
- re: You held a similar discussion about me a while back