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Might anyone here remember when Newt Gingrich proposed a few years ago in a USA Today OpEd:

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020121/3789392s.htm

that NASA offer competitive prizes (not winner-picking contracts) for space station accomplishments? Mr. Bigelow is now making that idea seem far less laughable, especially to those with a vested interest in maintaining NASA's current monopoly on space stations...

Might you remember how NASA has gone out of its way to subvert competitors for its own space station in the past? Here's a pathetic space station example:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/Mir

Can you believe that the main capitalist behind that private space station venture (Walt Anderson) has since been in prison for the past year and a half for alleged tax evasion? Is it a mere coincidence? They wouldn't even grant his bail request.

NASA's still unfinished station has a shady history where taxpayers are concerned:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/iss

If Mr. Bigelow's lucky, the NASA clique will decide it would rather waste our tax dollars not on its space station but on the Shuttle replacement, and other missions that will similarly fail (while central planners and their contractor clique continue laughing all the way to the bank).

Shouldn't we continue asking our elected officials why NASA doesn't simply fortify its still grotesquely underfunded competitive prizes program?

http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes

http://www.centennialchallenges.nasa.gov

For their contact data:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/democracy

If it's not through space commercialization, how ELSE is the USA supposed to become able to wrestle its record high $8 trillion dollar national debt into submission?

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm