When railroads wanted to roll across the country, it was asserted that the government needed to subsidize railroads, for the public good of course. It was a huge source of corruption and inefficiency. The one railroad which was not, John J Hill's Great Northern, was the one that received no government funding at all.
It is the subsidy that causes inefficiency and eventual uncompetitiveness.
I don't like Newt and I don't like publicly funded space programs, and especially don't like public subsidies for private space enterprise:P Can we just say 'no' so solyndra's and spacelyndra's plzkthx?:P
When it is economically sustainable it will happen. We're not in a cold war trying to prove our rocket is bigger. We do not have an asteroid on collision course.
I say that as a space-o-phile. I just don't think the happy pants I get from space flight justifies spending other peoples' taxes.
~nod~ I actually agree with you that any private launch efforts need to pay for themselves. There ARE things that NASA can do to help, but I agree with you that subsidies, per se, would likely be bad.
Wha... OK, you don't read what I actually say, do you? ^_^
There ARE things that NASA can do to help, but I agree with you that subsidies, per se, would likely be bad.
Maps, like you mentioned above... And like those made by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (created in 1807), which became part of the NOAA?
Weather (solar and otherwise), like that monitored by the terrestrial Weather Bureau (formed in 1870), which became part of the NOAA?
NOAA!?!? YOU. JUST. MADE. MY. POINT. FOR. ME. Let me say it again, maybe you'll catch on this time: ;) "There ARE things that NASA can do to help, but I agree with you that subsidies, per se, would likely be bad. "
I've always been a fan of changing government funding of X agency into X Prizes (and then shifting out of it gradually over time). But I would *never* be tactically stupid enough to run on it as a campaign platform, especially in a hard economy when government spending is a key issue.
Newt Gingrich - combining Cain's grand ideas with Perry's weak kung fu and Trump's personality swings.
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It is the subsidy that causes inefficiency and eventual uncompetitiveness.
I don't like Newt and I don't like publicly funded space programs, and especially don't like public subsidies for private space enterprise:P Can we just say 'no' so solyndra's and spacelyndra's plzkthx?:P
When it is economically sustainable it will happen. We're not in a cold war trying to prove our rocket is bigger. We do not have an asteroid on collision course.
I say that as a space-o-phile. I just don't think the happy pants I get from space flight justifies spending other peoples' taxes.
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~nod~
I actually agree with you that any private launch efforts need to pay for themselves.
There ARE things that NASA can do to help, but I agree with you that subsidies, per se, would likely be bad.
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NASA Finds Interstellar Matter From Beyond Our Solar System
Thats like saying we need to privatize NOAA.
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Wha...
OK, you don't read what I actually say, do you? ^_^
There ARE things that NASA can do to help, but I agree with you that subsidies, per se, would likely be bad.
Maps, like you mentioned above...
And like those made by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (created in 1807), which became part of the NOAA?
Weather (solar and otherwise), like that monitored by the terrestrial Weather Bureau (formed in 1870), which became part of the NOAA?
NOAA!?!?
YOU. JUST. MADE. MY. POINT. FOR. ME.
Let me say it again, maybe you'll catch on this time: ;)
"There ARE things that NASA can do to help, but I agree with you that subsidies, per se, would likely be bad. "
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Thanks! ^_^
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Thank you! ^_^
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Listen to Sarah Palin. Annoy a libel and vote for Newt!
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LOL!
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Newt Gingrich - combining Cain's grand ideas with Perry's weak kung fu and Trump's personality swings.
Tim C.
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^_^
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