This administration can't seem to make up its mind. Even as they tout a public option as the only way to save health care, lower cost and improve choice and competition - NASA is looking to out source the space program. For the first time the decades old Space Program is considering outsourcing everything from transporting astronauts to ferrying cargo into orbit.
The administration is looking at proposals for private industry to "build and run competing systems under commercial contracts, according to federal officials, aerospace-industry officials and others familiar with the discussion" U.S News reported today.
The Obama administration is still considering this private option for the space program which would replace the public option. Fans of this option
cite the following as a result of privatizing: More competition, Cost Savings to the government, and a faster, more nimble and less bureaucratic program.Well I am certainly confused -- I thought those were all the benefits of government run programs.
Not surprisingly there has been no comment yet from the White House on this story.
I am not sure what planet this administration has been living on for the last several years(to borrow Barney Frank's words} but I wish they would go back. They might be able to travel on a health food store sponsored shuttle. (I would have said Wendy's or McDonalds but under public option health care those will likely be taxed out of business)
Just like a petty third world dictator this administration is grabbing every bit of power and control over our lives they can - auto industry, banking, now health care? All of this is happening under the guise of social conscience, care for the common man, and improving the lives of all Americans- whataloadacrap
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
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So the GOP are a bunch of hypocrites. They want a single-payer space program, but a single-payer health system is socialism/communism/insert-epithet-here? The truth is that since Spiro Agnew's committee endorsed the shuttle no one has left low Earth orbit. Constellation would be Apollo all over again, which was great, but was never intended to be scalable. You can't use a Saturn V-style LV for tourism or hand JSC and KSC over to private companies, if you want to allow ordinary people to travel to space, you have to do it completely differently, like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic are doing.
It's time to say no to socialized spaceflight.
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