Posted on 10/20/2009 12:55:11 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
N.A.S.A. has become little more than another very big govt. agency. Too big and entrenched to do any on the edge exploration.
Afraid to take ANY chances.
Yesterday, I went to a Great Cuts (girlie barbers) in my area. The ‘technician’ was a 20-something, daughter-aged young lady. From the time that she asked for my last name to almost the time that I walked out the door, she seemed to be speaking to me from a strange kind of age-reversal perspective with me being the little brother and she as the wise old bird and “sexpert”. I had to laugh because it was all normalized once she realized how well I had tipped her. At first, I was the little brother but then suddenly I’m ‘Daddy’. As for the haircut, I give her an 8 out of a possible 10.
So you’re insinuating saying his problem is the “military / industrial complex”??
What exactly is your point?
US technological and defense companies, which create some of the best jobs anywhere = and keep us safe.
Are bad?
My father once said “Attitude is everything”. Perhaps he wasn’t strictly correct, but I think there’s truth in there. Many of this thread’s comments cut to the chase.
I’ve said before that “political correctness” is at the root of this. If we are persuaded not to respect ourselves, not to honor our achievements, the goal of ensuring we fail is much easier to reach. Most people are joiners....they will emulate the prevailing attitude, as to not look out of place.
/sarc.
Yep...here’s a little ditty I wrote for Algore last Feb 14...
Global Warming is red
Planet Earth is blue
Please pardon the carbon footprint
Of my New Michigan igloo
Actually, under the current administration, this nation now struggles to do pretty much of anything.
Oh - except waste un-effing-believable amounts of money by pouring it down various government crap holes; at that, Obama has been an enormous success.
As if there is truly no success like failure...
“America lost its vision about the time we elected Klintoon”
No, America began losing its vision in 1988 with a president who didn’t understand “the vision thing.”
That same (now former) president recently dishonored Texas A&M University by inviting the Stalinist-in-chief to speak here.
- JP
Women can (and do) make very important contributions to the workplace and it is arguable that the world has been poorer for not taking feminine “takes” on things in the past.
But having said that, it is certainly true that women are much much less likely to take risks than men, and theres no gain without risk.
“America lost its vision about the time we elected Klintoon.”
We lost our vision with regards to space the second we went with the space shuttle, and focused on the “international” space station.
As for satellite launches, we are just too expensive. If we were cheaper, then folks would launch in the US. Russians, using decades-old designs that are evolved and reliable, and the French with subsidies can launch far cheaper than NASA because NASA has a bloated, useless bureaucracy, which is the real reason why we can’t, even if they had a blank check, get to the moon ever again.
“U.S. Losing Space Race”
The U.S. has been losing just about everything since Barack Hussein Obama took over the Presidency illegitimately.
Were going to have to ride Russian and Chinese rockets to get to the ISS starting next year.
Uhhh, the Space Race is over, we won it in 1969. You might have heard about it, it was in all the papers.
And it’s the death of American competence, too. We’ve become a nation of incompetent idiots. Go drive somewhere in your town; chances are you will see 10 overt acts of idiocy within five miles of your home. Go look at clueless shoppers at Meijer or Wal Mart. People today just DON’T THINK.
Once upon a time, Americans were known for their ability to innovate, organize and implement, in virtually every endeavor known to man. Today, not so much at all. And those areas we still do things well, we are busy pissing away.
And it has a lot to do with the demasculinization of men, as you pointed out. Now a man who wants to be a man is branded a criminal, and only ignorant criminals are acting as “manly.” There aren’t enough real men left in the generation under 40 years of age. Do you really think America could fight and win another World War? Nope, I don’t.
THAT IS ART!
Thanks. Good point...
We shouldn’t follow policies based on whether they “create jobs,” actually government-created jobs are job destroyers on net, as the resources it takes to create them must be taken from the more productive private sector. Basic econ 101, I suggest you read Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, or Economics for Dummies by....I forget his name.
And yes, I do think the military-industrial sector is bloated and has too much sway in Washington. That hardly makes me a terrorist-loving America-hating commie who doesn’t care about national security.
Conservatives would complain about any other instances of fraud, abuse, or overspending when it comes to any other area of government or government subcontractors. Yet when it comes to defense spending, it’s never too much? We have to buy every product the defense contractors can come up with? Sorry, but I think we should be way more careful with our defense than this. I think all this waste makes defense more expensive than it really ought to be, which *hurts* our country and our safety.
And manned space flight is a tremendous waste of tax-payer money. Unmanned space flight accomplishes way more for way less. Space ought to be freed up so private enterprises can get more involved. When the technology is there, with a better, more economical means of supporting human life in space as well as less costly means of getting into space (using rockets to get us up there is a huge, huge, HUGE cost), then manned space flight will make more sense.
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