Continental Europe is suffering from a combination of stangant economic growth, high unemployment, and the threat of deflation, and yet it wastes billions duplicating GPS and propping up an uncompetitive space launch capability. When countries in Europe, in spite of the punishing tax load they place on their citizens, can't even afford the demographic time bomb created by their below-replacement level birth rates and economically absurd pension plans, why piss away money on something that already works (GPS and everyone else's commercial space launch) and that they don't need (because the Chinese and the US do it cheaper and always will)?
Is it really worth billions of dollars for the EU to play make believe that it is a world power by duplicating a US system that is more than 20 years old? EU spending on space launch is the result of the same blinkered reasoning that tries to homogenize the population by punishing people who work hard by taxing them more to pay the lazy bastards who want to sit in a cafe and sip coffee on a government hand out.
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Continental Europe is suffering from a combination of stangant economic growth, high unemployment, and the threat of deflation, and yet it wastes billions duplicating GPS and propping up an uncompetitive space launch capability. When countries in Europe, in spite of the punishing tax load they place on their citizens, can't even afford the demographic time bomb created by their below-replacement level birth rates and economically absurd pension plans, why piss away money on something that already works (GPS and everyone else's commercial space launch) and that they don't need (because the Chinese and the US do it cheaper and always will)?
Is it really worth billions of dollars for the EU to play make believe that it is a world power by duplicating a US system that is more than 20 years old? EU spending on space launch is the result of the same blinkered reasoning that tries to homogenize the population by punishing people who work hard by taxing them more to pay the lazy bastards who want to sit in a cafe and sip coffee on a government hand out.