Tim May wrote:
For example, the space program. The Moon Flag Planting cost about 100,000 slave-lives (about $125 thousand milliion in today's dollars) to finance. It distorted the market for things like single stage to orbit, which might have happened otherwise. And it created a bureaucracy more intent on spreading pork to Huntsville, Houston, Canaveral, and other pork sites. (Surprising that Robert Byrd failed to get WVa picked as the control center. He was too junior then, probably.)Tim,
I read that the otherwise unimpressive International Space Station is utter genius in one respect: it has a subcontractor in *every single one* of the 435 House member's districts.
Howie Goodell
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