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   From: robberbaron@invalid.ut   
      
   Ed P wrote:   
      
   > Interesting numbers but they don't tell the whole story.   
   >   
   > Should a widow living on $800 a month SS pay more so the top 1% can pay   
   > less?   
      
   The disparity in revenues in question is so extreme that none of that   
   demographic can impact the truly rich or their "share" in the slightest.   
      
   You know this Edie P, you lying leftard trash.   
      
   > Should the top 1% give more of their corporate profits to workers in   
   > higher wages so they can pay more taxes?   
      
   Should you or I determine the age scale and benefits for any viable free   
   market business?   
      
   You marxist toadie.   
      
      
   > Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, earns around $7.99 million per hour.   
   > This is based on his net worth increasing by $70 billion in 2023, from   
   > $107 billion to $177 billion. Bezos's wealth growth is largely due to   
   > the value of Amazon stock, which he owns around 9% of.   
      
   And so?   
      
   He built a major supply chain monster!   
      
   Try not to act like the jealous old sot you are.   
      
   > How Much Does Elon Musk Make an Hour. The quick answer—Elon Musk makes   
   > around $1.6 million per hour. This is based on his net worth that rose   
   > by $143.9 billion in the past decade until early 2023. That's 220,690   
   > times the federal minimum wage   
      
   And both men are supporting the only viable space program we have now   
   that Obama killed off NASA, oh well...   
      
   https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/322918-how-ba   
   ack-obama-ruined-nasa-space-exploration/   
      
   it is useful to look back on how profoundly and adroitly President   
   Barack Obama crippled the space agency’s efforts to send astronauts   
   beyond low Earth orbit. When Obama came into office, he did what a   
   number of other presidents have done to determine their goals for NASA:   
   he formed a presidential commission to study the space agency and come   
   up with some recommendations.   
      
   The Augustine Commission, so named after its chairman former Lockheed   
   Martin CEO Norm Augustine, returned with a set of recommendations some   
   months later. The commission found that the program then in existence,   
   Project Constellation, was not executable under any reasonable budget.   
   The program, started by President George W. Bush, had been underfunded   
   and had faced technical challenges for years. The commissions offered   
   two alternatives. The first was Moon First, which would have focused   
   America’s efforts on a return to the moon. The second was Flexible Path,   
   which would have sent American astronauts to every destination besides   
   the moon—the asteroids, the moons of Mars, and so on. Both options would   
   lead to the holy grail of space exploration enthusiasts, a mission to Mars.   
      
   The kicker was that both options would cost an extra $3 billion a year   
   for NASA to execute. For the Obama administration, which was not shy   
   about spending money in areas that it cared about, this price tag was   
   too dear to bear.   
      
   The government’s response was formulated in secret. The results of these   
   private deliberations were rolled out in the 2011 budget request that   
   was released in February 2010. Project Constellation would be canceled,   
   root and branch. Instead, NASA would conduct studies of heavy-lift   
   rockets, deep-space propulsion, and other technologies that it was said,   
   in the fullness of time, would make exploring space cheaper and easier.   
      
   Congress, which had not been consulted, reacted with bipartisan fury.   
   The Obama administration made two critical errors. It had not consulted   
   with Congress or anyone else when it developed its plans to kill   
   Constellation. The White House also blatantly pulled a bureaucratic   
   dodge that was apparent even to a first-term member of the House from   
   the sticks. To kill a popular program, one studies it to death. Nowhere   
   in the Obama plan was there a commitment to send astronauts anywhere.   
   Clearly, the White House had no intention of doing space exploration.   
   President Obama had expressed an antipathy to American exceptionalism,   
   and nothing speaks to that quality than American astronauts exploring   
   other worlds.   
      
   When Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, Gene Cernan, the last   
   man on the Moon, and Jim Lovell, the hero of Apollo 13, sent an open   
   letter condemning the cancellation of Constellation, President Obama   
   knew he had a problem on his hands. So, with Apollo astronaut Buzz   
   Aldrin in tow as a political prop, Obama went down to the Kennedy Space   
   Center to make his big space announcement. We would go to Mars, sometime   
   in the next 30 years and visit an Earth-approaching asteroid before   
   that. We would not go back to the moon because we had already been there.   
      
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