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Utah vs. NASA On Heavy-Lift Rocket Design
FleaPlus writes "Utah congressmen Orrin Hatch, Bob Bennett, Rob Bishop, and Jim Matheson issued a statement claiming that NASA's design process for a new congressionally-mandated heavy-lift rocket system may be trying to circumvent the law. According to the congressmen and their advisors from solid rocket producer ATK, the heavy-lift legislation's requirements can only be met by rockets utilizing ATK's solid rocket boosters. They are alarmed that NASA is also considering other approaches, such as all-liquid designs based on the rockets operated by the United Launch Alliance and SpaceX. ATK's solid rockets were arguably responsible for many of the safety and cost problems which plagued NASA's canceled Ares rocket system."
In 2005 (the last year I could easily find number for) CA received 79 cents of federal spending for every federal tax dollar paid, NY was 78 cents and Utah was $1.07. To give you some framework for those numbers, CA works out to have sent ~$286,627,000,000 to the Federal Government, and received ~$242,023,000,000 dollars worth of federal funding. A disparity of 44 billion. Who's bailing out who exactly?
Did you factor in a the work the FBI does hunting down copyright violators and the state dept to make sure hollywood can continue to enjoy their price discrimination worldwide? Crunch those numbers then get back to me.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
Government does work. Look around. For every issue like that there are thousand of projects working successfully.
Hey, why don't you move to a place the effectively has no government and let me know how that works out for you, m'kay?
And stop equating your modern libertarian crap to Jeffersonianism. It's not, and you look stupid.
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