From: one-if-by-land@concord.com   
      
   "Edgar"  wrote in message   
   news:47c442e3$0$26086$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...   
   > "Don"  wrote in message   
   > news:fq19ae011jf@news5.newsguy.com...   
   >> The word *success* has been redfined:   
   >>   
   >> 1) Spend hundreds of millions of dollars putting a *spy satellite* that   
   >> doesn't work into outer space   
   >>   
   >> 2) Spend tens of millions more shooting it down so that it (hopefully)   
   >> doesn't kill too many people and poison the earth when it crashes   
   >>   
   >> 3) Use the debacle to make your case for even more Pentagon funding for a   
   >> bigger and better satellite that you promise will work this time.   
   >>   
   >   
   > On the other hand, in the private sector, the ONLY measure of success is   
   > dollars and cents, no matter how you make it, no matter what gets   
   > destroyed, no matter how many people are killed.  One thing is for sure,   
   > the right answer hasn't been found yet, certainly not by governments,   
   > certainly not by the free market.   
      
   How many companies in the private sector have launched failed satellites and   
   then shot them down, and then used that for a marketing strategy, and did it   
   all with stolen money?   
   You can live quite nicely without a gov't but you won't live very long at   
   all without a free market.   
      
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