Re: Space Travel for the Rich

From: Tkalbfus1 (tkalbfus1_at_aol.com)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: 08 Oct 2004 17:26:58 GMT

>The joy most people greeted the triumph of SpaceShipOne and the
>prospect of a space tourism industry has not, it seems, been
>universaly shared. Indeed, the political barriers to a space tourism
>industry may be just as difficult as the technical ones.
>
>This piece was written a day or so before the collapse of HR 3752.
>
>
>http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_10268.shtml

Its a common fantasy among leftish sorts to believe that the poor do not dream
of being rich themselves, but rather they dream of making the rich as poor as
themselves and maybe their own poverty won't bite as much.

But what if it does?

If everybody is poor, or only you are poor, you are still poor.

You have trouble feeding your family or finding a place to live. These troubles
don't disappear if you bring down others who are living better than yourself.

Now picture a politician who visits a poor neighborhood. The poor people there
want to know how the politician is going to help lift them out of poverty, but
instead they hear how he intends to stop rich people from joyriding into space.
And those terrible "Fox hunts" such snobbery! He'll put a stop to those, that's
darn sure, but to solve the problems of poverty, he has not a clue. All he can
do is make the lives of the rich harder and limit the opportunities of the rich
to become richer, and also of the poor from becoming richer. If you want
equality, its easier to make everyone poorer than to make everyone richer.
Leftists always concentrate on making people poorer so that there is less
income differential between the rich and poor. That is why that editorial comes
down so screaming hard on people who want to provide services for the rich.
Pioneering sevices such as private space travel are considered especially
vulnerable and so draw much of their fire.

I am not particulaly well off. I struggle to support my family and I work 12
hour days, 6 days a week, and these leftist sort of people who want to bring
down the rich to my level do very little for me.

Tom

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