Comments on: Preparing for the transition http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/10/preparing-for-the-transition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=preparing-for-the-transition Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Library: A Round-up of Reading « Res Communis http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/10/preparing-for-the-transition/#comment-145854 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:49:46 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1809#comment-145854 […] Preparing for the transition – Space Politics […]

]]> By: reader http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/10/preparing-for-the-transition/#comment-142668 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:46:55 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1809#comment-142668 But as long as most of the world sticks with fractional reserve banking, it IS all funny money anyway, so a random $2B thrown out doesnt change anything really.

]]> By: Vladislaw http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/10/preparing-for-the-transition/#comment-142252 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:48:39 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1809#comment-142252 I do not believe that is what he mean’t about being not enough to fight over.
Consider this: Divide the 3.4 trillion dollar budget into blocks of 2 billion dollars, then tell me how much time would be needed for congress to debate and legislate each 2 billion dollar block of funds and combine all those 2 billion dollar blocks into a unified budget.

]]> By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/10/preparing-for-the-transition/#comment-142197 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:34:15 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1809#comment-142197 Actually, I would have blown it all on that circum-Lunar Soyuz flight Space Adventures is trying to sell. . . .

— Donald

]]> By: Bob Mahoney http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/10/preparing-for-the-transition/#comment-142175 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:48:31 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1809#comment-142175 You know, if I had had $2B ten years ago, I could have been a rich man today!

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/10/preparing-for-the-transition/#comment-142090 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:21:56 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1809#comment-142090 Hey, a trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money.

]]> By: Charles In Houston http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/10/preparing-for-the-transition/#comment-141924 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:35:28 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1809#comment-141924 Wow, what a revelation! So two billion dollars is not enough to argue over?

I think Congress is likely to go along with it because it’s not big enough to have a fight over.

Hey! Good to know that! Let’s give 2 billion to LOTS of worthwhile causes – veterans, day care, new roads and bridges and parks and pet adoption services and signs that say Be Nice… The meaning of this is that we have opened the floodgates of federal money pretty wide already. Where do you stop? Do you decide that it is all Funny Money anyway and why not just hand out freebies to everyone?

I am a BIG supporter of space exploration but if we are gonna give an additional 2 billion – just don’t borrow it from my unborn grandchildren.

And when exactly did 2 billion dollars become just roundoff errors in someone’s budget?

And if 2 billion is not enough to fight over, how long will it be until someone says it should be 10 billion?? Is that big enough to fight over?

The Federal deficit is huge and growing at an enormous rate. If we continue to hand out money to everyone – it will become worthless and we will not have an economy at all. That would not be good for our space exploration goals.

Disclaimer: I voted for John McCain. But I still maintain some independence and perspective.

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