Re: Retooling the Vision for Space Exploration

The United States despite its great economic success relative to the
rest of the world, is growing increasingly fragile. Eisenhower by
promoting US investment in manufacturing overseas, and undermining US
based manufacturing, removed the basis of US wealth. We became the
world's largest importer, where we used to be the world's largest
exporter. This weakened the US dollar, and caused the US to go off
the gold standard.

Nixon by letting the dollar float set the stage for the collapse of
the S&Ls and end of low interest rates under Reagan. When the value
of the dollar is not stable, its impossible to have low-interest
loans. Without low interest loans, its impossible to invest in huge
public works projects, large capital equipment, or have widespread
home ownership. This changes the character of the nation, and its
ability to take care of business. This caused the US to change from
the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor nation and
put the value of our currency at the mercy of foreign powers.

The US has retained control of its nuclear and missile technologies
with its anti-proliferation policies.

The US should reverse the madness instituted under Eisenhower, and
seek to bring investment back to the United States, and limit
investment overseas. It does this very simply by creating compelling
opportunities to invest in space based resources, assets, and
technologeis derived from missile and nuclear technologies. These
include;

(1) global wireless hotspot
(2) ballistic transport
(3) lunar, mars, and space colony development
(4) powersatellite
(5) asteroidal capture and mining
(6) nuclear light bulb

In this way the US can restore its leadership position in the world
through operation of the market. By providing dramatically improved
transport, communication and energy technologies, the US can capture
and hold the leading economic position in the world and control its
destiny using resources within its control.

Adopting a more peaceful approach to geopolitics is also helpful.
Switzerland abandoned warfare 500 years ago, as a result, it is one of
the wealthiest places on Earth and its currency and banking system are
very solid. Japan and Germany abandoned warfare 70 years ago, and
their currencies likewise are very stable as well as their banking
system. If the US would abandon warfare as a means of national policy
and its current commitment to SIOP - it would find itself in a totally
different world, far less threatening than the world it finds itself
in today.


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