Off The Editor’s Desk – 7-28-2021
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The space race is going strong!
The space race has heated up again in the last couple of weeks. But, this time it is not between the United States and Russia, or China or North Korea, but it is between two private individuals.
According to The Verge: “Opening up the cosmos to the masses and normalizing space travel is a goal companies and their billionaire backers have been targeting for years but haven’t yet achieved. There’s economic potential beyond launching rich people into space: microgravity research for scientists and, a much farther goal, rapid transportation between continents. That’s the vision they’re selling with these flashy flights; once exclusive to government astronauts, traveling in space could be a thing for everyone else too.”
In the last two weeks, billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have opened the door to private space travel. That is if you have at least, a quarter million dollars to spend on a ticket.
Benzo flew in a winged craft to more than fifty miles above the earth, while a week later Branson and crew were rocketed over sixty miles high.
In my mind it’s great that private firms are taking the lead in space travel. But then, here comes the politicians that would have us believe that only the government can get things done. And, the one and only Senator Bernie Sanders delivered that thought to us.
Sanders delivered this: “Here on Earth, in the richest country on the planet, half our people live paycheck to paycheck. People are struggling to feed themselves, struggling to see a doctor, but the richest guys in the world are off in outer space!”
“Yes, it’s time to tax the billionaires.” President Joe Biden fits right into that scenario too. Also, hundreds of other politicians.
That brings me to wonder, if Bernie had been around in the later part of the 1800s and early 1900s with his tax and spend programs which would have taxed the people that created the Industrial Revolution in this country right out of existence. With Bernie’s type of thinking back then, it would have kept us on the farm and we would only be able to come to town once a month on the back of a horse.
Mark Levin, an American lawyer, author, and radio personality, put it this way by asking how a person like Sanders or the president, who have never held a job that produced a product or service, could tell the rest of us how to run our business.
Both Biden and Sanders, have become millionaires and own several expensive homes while serving in Congress. Sanders was elected to the House of Representatives in 1990 after serving as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont. And, then on to the senate and has been in Washington D. C. ever since then, trying to brainwash us into believing there is something better than Capitalism. And, President Joe Biden has served something like 44 years at the public trough, telling us how to live. They have no idea what it’s like to produce anything and see that it sells in order to have an income to support your family.
So let’s all get onboard for that twenty-minute trip to Australia.
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton