Because Barak is an ignorant fool who has never done so much a slop together a wopper. Barak indeed deciding where we go!!!!
This is exactly the problem with letting the government dictate the priorities of an industry. If you think NASA has bungled space development, wait until the government gets done with the banking, insurance, auto, medical, etc. industries. Even the Soviet Union knew that they needed to foster some competition in key industries.
The Russians are going to get a big belly laugh when our economy seizes up under the Obama-messiah administration and Democrat Congress.