Don't really see why comments made on one right-wing site suggests Conservatives (whatever that means) are losing it. But whatever.
In reply:
Financing space programs and the usual anti-tax, micro-sized government, mass privatization blabber is not contrary the right-wing model; space = defence. Who keeps pushing for uber-budget programs like 'star wars?' Precisely.
Hypocritical? Yes. But then, no need to look to space for that: the top US industries (i.e. big business) are all kept viable via unending annual tax dollar handouts...
...that's a publicly-financed bureaucracy that oversees public funds being systematically syphoned into the coffers of a private sector that does nothing but scream the slogans of laissez-faire economics, while facing collapse under real market forces should said funds evaporate.
Anyone with a conscience should get the urge to kill when right-wing types relentlessly bash welfare and blab on about the naturalness of individualism.
