{"id":3606,"date":"2010-04-30T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T13:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2011-04-08T09:41:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T13:41:41","slug":"qotd-a-notable-unintended-consequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/30\/qotd-a-notable-unintended-consequence\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: A notable unintended consequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>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&#8217;s bafflingly sensible space policy, which sticks out like a <a href=\"http:\/\/toledoblade.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100425\/OPINION02\/4250304\" target=\"_blank\">healthy thumb<\/a> in an otherwise horribly mutilated hand of policies.<\/p>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brian Micklethwait, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/04\/on_the_unintend.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;On the unintended consequences of President Obama&#8221;, <em>Samizdata<\/em><\/a>, 2010-04-28<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,41,44,13],"tags":[158,69,394,76],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-quotations","category-space-science","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-nasa","tag-privatization","tag-socialism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Wa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8716,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/8716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}