On Feb 12, 9:45�pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
" wrote:

:
: All kidding aside, the Russian (or Chinese) price is irrelevant once a
: US commercial provider becomes available. There are "buy American"
: provisions in the law. SpaceX and the others don't have to match
: Russia's price. Once Dragon (or any other US commercial vehicle) is
: available and meets NASA's requirements, NASA will buy it and stop
: buying Soyuz/Progress. Period.
:
:isnt buy american illegal? given things like NAFTA and all the other
:free trade laws?
:

Not when the purchaser is spending government money.

Hidiotic Hallerisms Helided

--
"Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is
�only stupid."
� � � � � � � � � � � � � � -- Heinrich Heine

so its fine to essentially rip off the taxpayer?

because ultimately all taxayers pay for overpriced government work

This leads to bloated budgets and our country headed towards
bankruptcy...