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Ret. General Robert Spalding: Moon Landing Couldn’t Happen in Today’s Deindustrialized America; ‘We’ve Lost It All’ to China
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This article makes our sell-out political class very happy indeed.
They are high-diving each other in their walled/gated mansions by the pool giving orders to their servants, all for a job well done.
We can get it back. Just keep raising the tariffs. Not too fast, market needs time to adjust and realize that tariffs are good not bad for the US.
I’d be for government backed low interest loans to help restart some industries. But that ONLY makes sense if you have protective tariffs. Otherwise you’re just wasting money.
I worked for two companies, Regency Communications and EMR, who took NASA contracts and lost money on them. They took them so they could be a part of the lunar landing project. Both companies eventually went out of business. But the, mostly, one-off items they designed, built, tested and verified, were works of art. The level of technical expertise required to design those items was long gone from both companies by the time I came along in the late seventies and early eighties. I believe it was Isaac Newton who said, “I see far because I stand on the shoulders of giants.” By the time I arrived on the scene, the giants were long gone and forgotten. It was difficult to see over the next cube.
It is taking at least 8 years to design and build the prototype replacement of the SR-71 an airplane that was designed, built, tested and activated in about 5 years using sliderules, paper and pencil.
No. We couldn’t do what we did in 1969 again today.
““We fell into this trap of believing that open markets lead to wealth, and wealth leads to democracy, and, therefore, “
Put this into the same category of stupidity that says that “our strength is diversity” Really? Why? How does that work?
Hooray for Captain Spalding!!
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Reference to a very old movie by a not so old FReeper.
Forget it.
I tend to agree. Ditto the Manhattan Project. Sure this country and its industrial complex can still do great stuff. But can we do great NEW outside-the-box, never-been-done-before, paradigm-shifting stuff like we did 1940-70? Doesn’t seem like it. Let’s face it. We peaked half a century ago. The left’s war on white males has consequences.
Not just that, we’d have a bunch of morons bitching about the crew not being diverse enough and not enough minority owned companies getting contracts.
Spaulding also talks about the ever popular STEM education.
Instead of a program to recruit the best and brightest it has become just another cause for social justice warriors to provide opportunity in their own vision. STEM looks like a cause for females and minorities. Everything in this country is about equality instead of excellence. News flash. They are not the same and nobody has the right to equality anyway only opportunity. Success can only happen when only cream rises to the top of the bucket.
Free markets lead to wealth and who in their right mind thinks wealth would lead to democracy? This article is nonsense. If you inflation adjust what was spent then and spend that amount again, within the same set of laws and regulations existing then, you could repeat the moonnshot easily.
Today’s 787 is far more complex then Apollo. Another moonshot is a matter of will not technology and industry.
But we have chosen welfare and government business cronyism and not free markets. We have chosen democracy over the rule of law and a Republic. Therefore we cannot afford a government run and financed moonshot.
All America can do today is reminisce and superimpose the Apollo rocket onto the Washington Monument.
My trade proposal proposed that:
1. building components subject to building codes be US made
2. the motor vehicle trade be financially balanced
It sounds like AOC’s Green Deal remarketed to me.
I don’t even think they could pick what kind of people to send.
Too many people can’t pick a restroom.
We have become babbleland.
Not unless Trump goes himself.
“They” would gladly help him go.
I guess I am referring to congress.
Where do these guys come from and who finds them???????
Except of course he’s completely completely full of crap. We still make lots of stuff here. We’ve got like 100 automotive factories alone.
Clinton. Bush. Obama. Traitors and criminals, all.