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A New Administration - A New Reckoning |
And as you know, Ladies and Gentlemen: Government money isn't government money – until they have first taken it from us. It's actually our money.
And with that government bureaucrat investment (of our money) – comes government bureaucrat protection of their investment.
If Musk messes up – it looks really bad for the bureaucrats who have given him, again, FIVE BILLION DOLLARS of OUR money.
So the bureaucrats will spend hundreds of millions of dollars (or more) – of OUR money – so as to cover up Musk's mess ups.
Because his mess ups – are their mess ups. And may lead to the people footing the crony bill – that, again, is us – asking why the heck Musk received FIVE BILLION DOLLARS of our money.
There is a long history of Musk messing up – and government covering up. To wit – Musk's space exploration company SpaceX:
"NASA assured the public that the agency would release a public summary of the results from its investigation by this summer. But just weeks ago, NASA announced that it will no longer to do so. 'NASA is not required to complete a formal final report or public summary since it was an FAA licensed flight,' a spokesman claimed."
Oh. Ok. I can't imagine why "Drain the Swamp" Donald Trump won.
Do other, non-Musk space companies get treated a little more realistically? Mais oui:
Want some more Musk SpaceX mess ups? No problem:
"The Falcon 9 went up in smoke again just months later. One of the rockets blew up again in September 2016, destroying a $205 million Facebook satellite and the entirety of a $62 million government contract."
Well, behold Musk's November mess up:
"Beyond that, the mystery surrounding the mission called Zuma, which was postponed last week, is only deepening.
"SpaceX's only statement, issued last Thursday, said it had put the launch on hold so teams could review an issue uncovered during tests of Falcon rocket nose cones, or payload fairings, that were performed recently for another customer.
"'We will take the time we need to complete the data review and will then confirm a new launch date,' the statement said."
"The explosion involved the next generation of the company's Merlin engine. The mishap occurred Sunday during what the company called a 'qualification test.'…(T)he company founded by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk once again has to figure out what went wrong with its hardware."
But the only alternative has always been the same crony government bureaucrats – doing the same awful non-investigating they've always done.
But wait – we are now in the very different hands of Donald Trump and his Administration.
If ever a particular bog of the Swamp needed draining – this is it.
Here's hoping the Trump Administration will provide due diligence to how the government is giving oh-so-much of our money to Musk – and how he is spending it.
The government due diligence never before provided Musk's many previous mess ups.
Let's Make Space Great Again.
And also how we spend the copious government coin to get there.
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Seton Motley is the President of Less Government and he contributes to ARRA News Service. Please feel free to follow him him on Twitter / Facebook.
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