1) You can't pay for a war with tax cuts for the wealthy.

2) When you're in a war, it always helps to secure the enemy's weapons dumps.

3) If the cost of oil rises, then the costs of other goods rises, and due to these two fadctors demand for other goods drops.

4) If people are not selling these goods they can not pay their mortgages.

5) If those mortgages have been leveraged into chimerical "investments", then you have a speculative collapse.

6)Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were under neocon control for 8 years.

7) X33 was killed, most likely by Thiokol, and certainly with the Mars enthusiasts' active and subsidizedl support, at the first problem. In the 1960's US the fuel tank problem would have been overcome instead.

8) The other factor was X33 flight rates and the demand for space launches. This demand had been estimated to high.

9) SpaceX has enjoyed the support of the US government.