PROFITIZING NASA

How is it possible that NASA can be un-profitable? If NASA were not being operated as a form of corporate welfare, it could be making so much money that Americans would no longer need to support it with tax revenue. In fact, Americans could be getting a DIVIDEND on NASA's profit.

Consider: NASA has had a monopoly, or near-monopoly, on launching space satellites for the past 30 years. It has been the foundation stone for a variety of massive, multi-billion dollar industries, but yet NASA has not even made enough of a profit to get off the welfare rolls! How is this possible?

Consider: How much money would NASA have made from launching satellites if NASA were privately owned by someone like John D. Rockefeller or Bill Gates? Bill Gates has managed to acquire a fortune of over 50 billion dollars by distributing the world's most annoying software. How much could he have made if he were actually selling something USEFUL?

America has some bizarre notion that government agencies should not be profitable. Why not? If they were profitable, we wouldn't have to pay taxes to support them. Their dividends would be supporting US.

How did GW Bush get thru an MBA at Harvard and not understand the concept of return on investment? The American people, as a collectivity, have INVESTED trillions of dollars in NASA. Since the 1940's they have been investing in rocketry. What have they gotten in return for their investment? Zilch. Unless they own a huge corporation.

Think about it: NASA has been the foundation stone for such phenomenon as satellite communications in the news media, telephony, the internet, GPS, and intelligence gathering. How does NASA manage NOT to make a profit? WHY should not government agencies make a profit?

But what really annoys me is that now there are a collection of capitalist greedballs who want to "privatize" NASA. How about that? After the American people, as a collectivity, have INVESTED trillions of dollars, the RETURN on that investment is now supposed to go to a handfull of greedy bastards who own giant multi-national corporations.

Then, just to add insult to injury, the fat traitors will probably sell all of America's hard-won secrets to their stinking little cheap-labor buddies in India and China. They'll say that nobody in America is smart enough to do the work. What they really mean is that no smart person in America will work for 35 cents an hour.


Draft 2, 9/1/06: Improved development of the idea of NASA raising revenue in order to reduce taxes. Reduced quantity of ineffectual insults.