Hardly a day seems to go by nowadays without somebody with approximately the same kind of political attitude as me scratching his head, publicly, in writing, about President Obama’s bafflingly sensible space policy, which sticks out like a healthy thumb in an otherwise horribly mutilated hand of policies.
Critics are disturbed by the large and unprecedented role Mr. Obama sees for the private sector in space exploration. For a president who is often accused of being a socialist, he has more faith in the ingenuity of the private sector than his detractors do.
Brian Micklethwait, “On the unintended consequences of President Obama”, Samizdata, 2010-04-28
April 30, 2010
QotD: A notable unintended consequence
Filed under: Economics, Quotations, Space, USA — Tags: BarackObama, NASA, Privatization, Socialism — Nicholas @ 09:14
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H/T for this link to Tom Kelley. I usually read Samizdata regularly, and have quoted Brian several times in the past, but this week has been rather disrupted, so I’m a few days behind on my usual rounds.
Comment by Nicholas — April 30, 2010 @ 09:16