RE: columbia -- what really happened
| How the US can justify spending so much money on Space while 33 million US
| citizens live below the poverty line amazes me.
The ideology of capitalism puts people with money into power. Benevolent as
the may want to be, power corrupts, and they are corrupted by power. From
this point of view, the impoverished only have themselves to blame. The
impoverished should go get jobs or an education, then jobs. It does not
occur to those in power to aid in education, but to cut it. Those in power
are, to a certain extent, educated and no longer require education. It's
their money and they can spend it how they choose (after all it is
capitalism). There are potential economies of scale and new opportunities
to make money to be had from space. What better way than to get to those
potentials than by getting your government (which you control) to pay you to
get to do it! Space shuttles are expensive and you can share the burden
with your fellow man. I can suck those tax dollars into my own coffers and
still get the space research I desire. It's a win win situation.
As hard as they try, putting a socialist blanket over capitalism will never
work. There will be class warfare sooner or later, the question is when.
The only thing those of us stuck somewhere in the middle can hope for, is
that the research paid for by our government accidentally stumbles upon that
magic energy formula, bringing us into the Stak Trek economy.
Randomly ranting,
Brooks
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