President Barack Obama has, almost from the time he entered office, taken a hostile position towards American companies. He prefers to deal with them from where crisis entreaties him to adopt a paternalistic and patronizing stance that requires government intervention into privately held companies not realized except by third world tin horn dictators like Fidel Castro and his sycophant Cesar Chavez.
His virtual takeover of General Motors, taking advantage of its crisis in light of a collapsing economy, poor management and crushing debt brought on by iniquitous union contracts and handing over the lion’s share of General Motors ownership to the same self dealing unions over the rightful debt owners, the stockholders and investors, is remarkable. He goes on to deflect criticism and responsibility from the pseudo private government entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who arguably caused the housing markets collapse which began the current crisis, shifting blame instead to the banks and mortgage brokers and Wall St. investment firms who certainly do bear some of the blame but hardly all of it.
BP has been blasted by Barack Obama, and rightly so, but where is the self criticism beyond a perfunctory “the buck stops here” comment that was immediately nullified by the excuses that followed? If BP is to be blamed for the initial spill and the follow-up, where is the examination and hue and cry for congressional probes of the government officials involved? There has been none.
So we can only conclude that in Obama’s world the equation goes something like this: Business bad, Government good. Business reckless and irresponsible, Government cautious and practical. Which makes it all the more puzzling that he would promote the virtual dissolution and handover of one of the few shining examples of a successful government program into private hands.
NASA, or the NATIONAL Aeronautics and Space Administration, which began life as a government program in 1958 and continues to send men into space, is at a crossroads. It has been hampered by lack of vision due to infighting and dueling philosophical differences for years until President George Bush proclaimed that its next mission was to the moon with the ultimate objective of reaching inter-solar planetary systems within the next generation. One would think that is a vision that Barack Obama could embrace wholeheartedly. You would think that he would hold up this shining example as government at its best. Instead Obama overturns that vision and sends NASA into a tailspin right back into the morass of backbiting and tumult that has plagued it for years when he proposed to turn over the space program to private companies. Unspoken is not the how, but the why? We need this, more now than ever before. If we are to become a lasting dynastic country the likes of Rome, rather than a centenarian blip on the radar as Portugal or Prussia, we need this more then we have the prescience to currently envision. Riches in minerals, medicine, and technology have always been realized in exploration. I am not advocating that we divest ourselves from private industries involvement, quite the contrary, but without an overarching vision and overarching administrative structure, we will find NASA and possibly the future of the United States, languishing.

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