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- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: killing the shuttle
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.163813.24593@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
- References: <1993Jan7.060559.805@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.726434023@convex.convex.com> <C0IAA3.Axy@zoo.toronto.edu> <1993Jan8.134734.15459@iti.org>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:38:13 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1993Jan8.134734.15459@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
- >In article <C0IAA3.Axy@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >
- >>You don't get rid of civil servants and politically-powerful contractors
- >>that easily. If you wipe out the Imperial Deathstar, they'll only start
- >>building another one.
- >
- >Today that's true. However, if the conditions existed where a group was
- >powerful enough to end Shuttle then the situation would be so different
- >that it is impossible to say what would happen.
-
- The AARP may be that group. The headline in today's Atlanta Journal
- Constitution says that Clinton will recommend raising the retirement
- age and taxing medical benefits as ways of dealing with the deficit.
- Lot's of cranky old people, who all vote in *every* election, including
- me, are going to be demanding that the government cut spending in other
- areas rather than break the social contract that we've spent our lives
- paying into. "Throwing money away in space" is going to be a prime target.
- If the meataxe falls, Shuttle won't be the only space spectacular cut.
- Clinton's new Defense Secretary designate is already telling a cheering
- Congress that $60 billion will be *easy* to cut out of DoD's budget. And
- you can bet that district pork isn't high on that chopping block. SDI
- is likely a goner, and along with it any space programs it funds. DC
- better find a private sugardaddy in a hurry. May I suggest the Japanese
- or the Saudis?
-
- Gary
-
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