Breaking: "Silverfox" VP PENCE Will Head The National Space Policy Council

twitter.com ^ | October 31, 2016

[AFreeBird]

Race Brannon! Hell yea, he gets it.

[VanDeKoik]

Get humans permanently off of this rock so we dont all die due to idiots trying to start WW3.

[Magnum44]

Paid for how?

A very valid question, but part of a much bigger picture.

With adults in charge again soon, we need to focus on our national defense in all aspects. That includes a strong economy and a strong industrial and technology sector. Space policy is just a part of that larger picture.

Our national space program, as with any govt entity, should primarily serve the constitutionally authorized national defense. There are several ways that it can do so. One of those is by getting the US back to being the worlds lead in technology so that when foreign threats emerge, we are so far ahead that they would not dare to challenge us. One way this is accomplished is by pushing the limits in access to space, remote sensing capabilities, space situational awareness, robustness and defense of critical infrastructure (GPS, comms, etc), etc. These dual use technologies are then available for military needs if a threat is present.

The above is accomplished through the inspiration of young engineers through programs like return to the moon, and missions to mars. But the goal of going to mars is really to serve the previously stated national defense purposes.

Related to this, accomplishing any of these tasks is only possible when we have an educated workforce. So a not stated goal is getting our young back into the sciences and mathematics that a healthy tech industry will need. IMO, we need to stop providing govt grants/loan programs to college unless the major is one that falls into a national need category, like engineering or life science (medical), etc.

So a national space "policy" is one that focuses the limited resources (money) not onto pie-in-the-sky efforts, but on 1) the projects that best support our lead in the world in tech and tech applications, and 2) the development of the critical skills in our workforce to sustain that lead.

The same type of US national security perspective should also be exercised in national energy policy, national education policy, national health policy, etc, etc. Doesn't necessarily mean we need a big bureaucracy for each, just guiding principles that give a worthy purpose to each.

[alancarp]

1. Stop funding so many liberal programs out of the government.
2. Tax receipts funneled back to the government from the high-tech jobs that NASA pipelines to the private sector.

[alancarp]

I like your answer better :)

[ETL]

"Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA"

Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
From Texas's 18th district

On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]

Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100409095818/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee

[ETL]

Must see YouTube video! (no joke, he was dead serious!)

March 2010:

Democrat Representative Hank Johnson fears Guam may tip over and "capsize" due to overpopulation!

Check out the reaction of the military official he was questioning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg

[DoughtyOne]

The beauty of Trump is that he is used to delegating things to people

He’ll be assigning things to many people. It’s his CEO leadership style.

He’ll get more things done and undone than five presidents.

Can’t wait for him to get down to work.

[techworker]

Naturally a time traveler from the future should be heading up this important initiative. :) Trump's selection of Pence looking better everyday Seriously though outsourcing NASA sure looks like a massive crony capitalism game. Let's crank up those STEM jobs in Central Florida again.

[DannyTN]

That’s true. He is one of the few candidates that is used to running a large organization. And even better, unlike governors, he is used to running a large organization that has to turn a profit, not a lazy bureaucracy that runs itself.

[DungeonMaster]

I hope with Trump we will be getting a much better deal from anything we do in space. It’s generally been a money loser.

[DoughtyOne]

Are the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard privatized?

Space is one of those categories where we don’t privatize the military uses.

For some things private sector. For others it’s the government, and fully authorized under the U. S. Constitution under national defense.

It’s today’s high ground, and we’ve frittered away far too much of our lead in space. Time to get back at it.

[Mr. K]

Hopefully he will stop NASA’s ‘muslim outreach’ programs, and go back to exploring space.

Everyone here should join Buzz Aldrin's ‘GetYourAssToMars” web page and sign up for his effort.

I have tried to contact him to go visit the Trump Campaign and it would be public news event AND they could mutually address the initiative. It would be exciting to see a Mars Program as ambitious as the Moon Project.

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly. We aren’t just pulling off a coup here. This is the coup to end all coups.

Trump is just what the doctor ordered.

[DannyTN]

Trump IS just what the doctor ordered.

But no coup will end all coups. With Trump’s help, we can restore and improve the checks and balances, but our people have to become and remain vigilant.

[DoughtyOne]

Coup here is a figure of speech. If you make a savvy move at work, it’s referenced as a real coup.

We’ve made the sly move backing Trump. It wasn’t a political coup. It was however a sly coup on our part, the realization and attainment of a great goal, getting him in.

[Resettozero]

To do what?

To be agents of space policy for our Nation.

[Guenevere]

I heard him say this LIVE
I was at his rally today!

[DannyTN]

So then I guess a coup to end all coups doesn’t mean ending coups but rather a really outstanding coup, a coup among coups?

[Covenantor]

DO when talking about workplace coup means it the sense of American Indian warriors counting coup, meaning talking scalps and mounting them on a coup stick as a trophy.

The other coup, shortened in recent years from the original coup d’etat, a successful overturning of the state.

In both instances the word “coup”, pronounced coo, is from the French. Indians adopting it from early French fur traders.