This is a post from my WordPress blog Stay A While, along with the comments. I decided to duplicate my Wordpress blog comments (along with all comments) on Blogger for posterity. Also because I lost my Wordpress password and haven't been able to recover my account. So I just copied everything over and changed the publish dates. Anyway, enjoy.
Subject: Before the Hate.
The Atlantis shuttle took off this morning for the last time. The last time NASA will send another manned space craft into space. From now on we have to hitch (at the cost of tens of millions of dollars) a ride into space with the Russians.
In the near future private corporations will send manned space crafts into space. Private corporations will exploit space, not explore space. For you conservatives who think that's the best choice, you have won (killed another government program by starving the money from it).
It will be interesting how space exploration will evolve with States all over the World sending crafts into space against American corporations. It will be the tourist flights against the scientific work. "Reality show" space travel against the "Science channel" network of serious investigation.
The laws about human behavior, rights, and conduct in space, have not been written. It will be interesting to see how private corporations up against State sponsored space fleets, will negotiate their property, or orbit (flight routes) rights. Maybe they will just demand what they want, use corporate spies and vandalism, or as typical capitalists, just push them off the corner.
Add to the list of things we have surrendered to the rest of the World (manufacturing, production, autos, textiles, appliances, TV's, etc., etc….) space flight.
I can't wait for the private police of our society, or fire departments, or libraries, or anything else normally delegated to the State to run on behalf of the people. And yes, with those pesky government regulations to protect individual rights for all.
Things are cyclical, and some day Americans will come back to the idea of communal taxation for the benefit of all. For now I guess WalMart will build its own roads and sewers when they build a new store.
Hope you can afford private services. Don't miss a payment, or when you call for help the private police, fireman, or EMT will say sorry we cannot service you for the crook in your house, house fire, or heart attack, because you had a late, or no payment.
The rich will have police. The rich will have fire departments, and the rich will be able to fly in space. I quote another line from JFK, who challenged Americans to be first in space:
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few that are rich".
I wonder if corporations will be satisfied servicing (making a profit) the small percentage of the people who can afford service, and of course for the rest, welcome to the third World State of America.
Government by the corporation, for the corporations.
Good luck with your Private Corporation of the United States.
That is the Orwellian nightmare.
8 Responses.
RealityZone: Nice place you have here.
I will put you on my blog roll so I can come back quickly.
Memphis Johnny: First of all, I enjoy your blog.
It's a shame, isn't it! No more pride in the USA! That's only for corporations, now, I guess.
anonymous: Oh So Sad. Another area of achievement for our poor United States gone under.
TOM Wordpress: Thanks RZ, I have added you to my link list.
MJ, this is the kind of America Republicans want, and they keep voting for them. It is a shame.
Hi sister.
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Leslie Parsley: Oh my, Tom – too damn depressing but only because it's so painfully true. But there's still a glimmer of hope left in me and a whole light of fight.
TOM Wordpress: Leslie,
This is what we get for listening to the sounds of selfishness from Conservative leaders, opinion news, right on down to bloggers like RN.
It's fun to have these ideological discussing at the top down to the bloggers; but we forget these are the people, the representatives of the policies, that have "this" America in mind. They have brought us down, because they truly believe that's where we belong. No faith, or hope in the future. No faith in the people and their abilities, or even wanting them around, aware, or getting in the way of what they (Republicans) want to do.
I can hear their battle cry now, "The poor have to do their bit for the country too".
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dmarks: Tom said: "MJ, this is the kind of America Republicans want"
I'd be interested to know which Republican leaders have taken the lead in killing the space program. Any idea?
08. July 11, 2011 at 11:03 am.
TOM Wordpress: Before 2006 (when Democrats regained control of the Congress) when GB was President and had majority in the Congress; Congress voted to cut NASA spending. It's not just one, it was the whole lot of them. That was after his father had mentioned going to Mars. Going to Mars would have meant a huge increase in NASA's budget to fulfill. Instead Mars was trashed, and so was NASA's budget. I do not know the status of the new space vehicle that was supposed to replace the shuttle. It was supposed to be a seamless turnover, and the new space craft should have been flying by now.
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