Can't all space nerds get along?

At 6:25 PM +0100 8/1/07, ANTIcarrot wrote:
>> From: Xenophile
>> Or have NASA offer $5 billion dollars to whichever private company can
>> do it best in, say, the next five years.
>
>This is the way it should be done.

Are you kidding???

The government steals a pile of cash from the taxpayers, then "overheads"
the vast majority of it, and then "gives" $5billion of to a business.

Why steal the money at tax time to begin with?

Why can't a business *earn* its money the way it's supposed to be done?

Oh. That's right. Profit is eeeevil...

Sheesh.

Cheers,
RAH

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