Gore Pushes for Private Investment in Space

dptalia writes "Al Gore said in a recent speech that more private enterprises need to invest in space. Gore pointed to the successful growth of the internet as proof that private investment is faster than government. Not surprisingly, Gore also lambasted President Bush's space policy."

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Re:Liberal vs. Conservative

[orcrist]

Not that I trust Mr. Gore to shrink the federal government.

Why not? He already did more to shrink the federal government as Clintons VP than any of these lip-service Republicans since they've been in power:

• Reduced the size of federal civilian workforce by 426,200 positions between January 1993 and September 2000...The government workforce was for the first time the smallest it had been since the Eisenhower Administration.
• Closed nearly 2,000 obsolete field offices and eliminated 250 programs and agencies, like the Tea-Tasters Board, the Bureau of Mines, and wool and mohair subsidies.
• Procurement reform led to the expanded use of credit cards for small item purchases, saving about $250 million a year in processing costs.

source: http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/whoweare/append ixf.html

Not that the mainstream "liberal" media covered this. sigh.