[Pukin Dog]

Do you have any idea how many jobs and how many millions of dollars that Branson will be bringing to New Mexico over the next 10 years?

They should have not only flown him in for free, they should have hired loose women to have sex with him on the flight.

[Turbopilot]

So he says, once he hooks the taxpayers for another measly $100M or so to build him a spaceport. While I think commercial spaceflight is inevitable, desirable, and the real future of space travel, I'm not yet convinced that low Earth orbit tourism for the hyper-rich is going to be a significant factor.

Even if everything Branson has promised is true, though, it doesn't justify buzzing him around at state expense (which he wasn't, here). That's just not a legitimate function of a limited government.