>>32: Private enterprises don't always function for profit. Again, with the SpaceShipOne project, the X-Prize that it won for its accomplishment was only worth about $10 million. It was not a for-profit venture. But enough wealthy funders wanted to see it happen, so it happened. This is also why I trust private charities to "redistribute wealth" more than I do the government.

>>SpaceShipOne uses technologies that were primarily developed by NASA

So do the space shuttles.

>> (and the prior Nazi government).

um, wtf

>>26: Then how do you label people like Michael Moore and Ralph Nader versus people like Neal Boortz and Sean Hannity? Was Rush Limbaugh a liberal when Clinton was in power, but now a conservative now that Bush is in power?

>>Furthermore...

You're backwards here. I view the (relative) efficiency and success of ONE government, namely mine, in the light of the failure of NoKo and the USSR and China before it decided to go with the whole capitalism thing. Our government, which is very limited in comparison, hindered progress much less than the governments of those places did/do.

>>37: And the Chernobyl incident under Big Brother's watch in the USSR. Sometimes bad things happen, no matter who is in charge. I don't blame NASA for the Challenger accident, either.