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Is Elon Musk Just A Billionaire Welfare King?
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| 11 June 2015
| Gaurav Agnihotri
Posted on 06/12/2015 9:27:31 PM PDT by Rabin
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To: The Antiyuppie
Elon Musk isn't risking his own money. That makes him a fascist, not a capitalist. Free market economics doesn't have any room for 1%'ers whose fortunes are created at the expense of the people who actually pay the bills.
Americans used to understand that you got the reward for taking the risks. Not by getting the "little people" to take them for you [in return for which, they get nothing.] There's no real difference between Elon Musk and the Banksters [or GM ownership and the UAW] who put billions at risk, knowing someone else would bail them out. Musk is simply being paid up front.
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posted on
06/12/2015 11:21:11 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
To: FredZarguna
Elon Musk isn’t risking his own money.
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Really? I read that he just about went broke a few years ago putting his money into SpaceX and Tesla. I know for a fact that he bought Tesla stock when they had secondary offerings.
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posted on
06/12/2015 11:38:13 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Moonman62
Put the drink down and back away from the computer...you'll be ok tomorrow........
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posted on
06/12/2015 11:42:44 PM PDT
by
M-cubed
( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
To: Moonman62
I read that he just about went broke a few years ago<<
LMAO...”just about”...Yup...i remember him living under the bridge with me...I just hope he remembers me when I'm down and out like he was...
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posted on
06/12/2015 11:54:08 PM PDT
by
M-cubed
( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
To: Moonman62
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posted on
06/13/2015 12:00:48 AM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
To: FredZarguna
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posted on
06/13/2015 12:46:11 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: wastoute
Our government used to apprehend people that followed that rule, not hand them bags of cash.
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posted on
06/13/2015 12:57:28 AM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
To: The Antiyuppie
True, but they aren’t going to build cheap space rockets or feasible alternative power systems in the warehouse behind the strip mall. Right.
Because a dirt-poor kid from Scotland could never rise through the ranks of entry-level and sales jobs to pretty much single-handedly create the United States Steel industry.
Eye Roll.
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posted on
06/13/2015 12:59:40 AM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
To: FredZarguna
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posted on
06/13/2015 4:28:36 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: Moonman62
Why not just stop launching? Nothing is coming to us from the ISS.
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posted on
06/13/2015 4:55:56 AM PDT
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Mamzelle
To: M-cubed
LMAO...”just about”...Yup...i remember him living under the bridge with me...
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Hey smart butt, he didn’t go broke.
My point to the person I was replying was he put up a lot of his own money for his companies back when they were struggling.
Musk believes in making better products for less money, and that the future should be better than the past. That reminds me of how Reagan used to say that our best days are ahead of us.
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posted on
06/13/2015 5:06:46 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Mamzelle
I’ve said all along that the ISS is a make work project.
But there are a lot more things to launch than missions to the ISS. If we are going to continue with the ISS, it’s good to use a company like SpaceX that will do it for a lot less money than the Shuttle.
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posted on
06/13/2015 5:10:26 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: wastoute
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posted on
06/13/2015 9:22:28 AM PDT
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FredZarguna
(It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
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