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Obama's Space Plan — a Conservative Argument
MarkWhittington writes "The Obama space proposal, which seeks to enable a commercial space industry for transportation to and from low Earth orbit while it cancels space exploration beyond LEO, has sparked a kind of civil war among conservatives. Some conservatives hate the proposal because of the retreat from the high frontier and even go so far as to cast doubt on the commercial space aspects. Other conservatives like the commercial space part of the Obama policy and tend to gloss over the cancellation of space exploration or even denigrate the Constellation program as 'unworkable' or 'unsustainable.'"
The constitution does not allow Congress to fund NASA. This is not a conservative for liberal opinion; it is a statement of fact.
I once took an excursion to Reddit, and later HN. Unlimited up/down voting sucks when dealing with a hive-mind.
Lets not forget that the states that was fighting slavery did not do it for the rights of black people. They did it because Slaves take jobs that free man can work. It is the same as people saying the illegal immigrants are steeling all the jobs.
The ironic end game though is that you'll see southern states waiving environmental, wage, and other regulations to get aerospace jobs, while the liberal north languishes, as usual, and so, when the south does "rise again", the Confederate Army will be in the position of having the spaceships while the North will be cut off and begging for some foreign powers to help it.
That's why the South and their conservative Republican anti-government politicians, get $1.50 to $2.00 back from the federal government for every tax dollar collected.
We have a word for this in the North, it's "welfare." Your state would fall apart without us, and our "big government."
On behalf of all of us Northerns:
You're welcome.
> I've been saying for 10 years or more: America is over.
A broken watch is right twice, daily -- but that doesn't mean it isn't broken.
If you preach gloom and doom long enough every now and then you will be correct.
Your student sees you as a service provider, not a "grades dealer". Deal with it.
Oh you academics in your ivory towers...the real world would kick you in the nuts. We dropped 2 big bombs on Japan, and we would do it again if we had to.