On Nov 3, 10:48 am, Matt wrote:
Clinton gets credit for being the first to tee up the subject. But
she promised something to everyone and said not a word about topline
budget or funding sources. There's nothing there anyone can hold her
to.

Beltway Washingtonians who support NASA are numbskulls.

Look at all the projects that have come down the pike in
recent years: Roton, X-33, Venturestar, Kelly Space, Space
Access, Pioneer Rocketplane, Beal Aerospace - all became
underfunded and "overlicensed", yet worked. Andrew Beal put
it this way: "The BA-2C program was the largest privately
funded program ever in existence to build a large capacity
space launch system. Unfortunately, development of a reliable
low cost system is simply not enough to ensure commercial
viability. Several uncertainties remain that are totally
beyond our control and put our entire business at risk.
The most insurmountable risk is the desire of the U.S.
government and NASA to subsidize competing launch systems.
NASA has embarked on a plan to develop a "second generation"
launch system that will be subsidized by U.S. taxpayers and
that will compete directly with the private sector..."

.... There will never be a private launch industry as long
as NASA and the U.S. government choose and subsidize launch
systems. While Boeing and Lockheed are private entities,
their launch systems and components are derivatives of
various military initiatives. Very little new effort takes
place without significant government subsidy, control, and
involvement. While we believed we could compete successfully
against the government subsidized EELV launch vehicles,
the characteristics and depth of subsidy for NASA's new
initiative as well as its ultimate performance are
impossible to determine or evaluate."

There you have it. My contention stands.
Beltway Washingtonians who support NASA are numbskulls.

Yet Hillary Clinton is just another big government
functionary with no real interest in space exploration.
Does that even make her a numbskull?

No.

Hillary Clinton represents the death of conservatism in
this country as we know it. It is conservatism which
allows most private industry to remain private, as well
as remain sovereign, in contrast to all the transnation-
alism and thievery, which is at an all time high, in
contrast to our national identity as a truly spacefaring
nation. We need to move in the direction "out" with the
same tenacity that created our early system of government
- small, independent, and self-sufficient.

I'm noticing an increase in synchronicity with the
smearing of revolutionary ideas in science and industry.
These are things which must not be allowed to happen
if a society is to remain free from the control of
dictators, as well as the continual propagandizing of
those who *seem* to represent all things for all people.

It is time for the free reign of big government that
has been slowing or hindering the implementation of
revolutionary ideas for COST EFFECTIVE STARTUPS in
science and technology to be reigned in, while at the
same time insuring our independence to keep this type
of sovereignity in place for generations to come.

American

God, give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue and damn
His treacherous flatteries without winking!
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.

(Josiah Gilbert Holland)