{"id":6565,"date":"2020-05-30T22:24:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T03:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6565"},"modified":"2020-06-06T14:18:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T19:18:57","slug":"one-giant-leap-for-profiteering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6565","title":{"rendered":"One giant leap for profiteering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot help but see NASA&#8217;s use of private companies for space travel as a giant leap for profiteering. I&#8217;ve never thought government should be run like a business &#8212; businesses are, quite often, run quite terribly <em>and<\/em> the entire point is to make money. Government should be run like a non-profit. Farming out government functionality to non-profits makes a modicum of sense, but for-profit prisons?! For-profit health insurance!? For-profit military equipment\/manpower?! Any of these seem to ensure some powerful lobby wants to expand demand &#8212; more people in prison, more sick people (don&#8217;t <em>cure<\/em> something, develop a drug that costs a couple hundred bucks a month), and INVADE!!! Reusable first stage rockets are a great advance in space travel &#8212; but there&#8217;s no reason NASA couldn&#8217;t have designed one. The only &#8220;progress&#8221; we made today is that some private company can profit from my tax dollars going toward space travel and research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot help but see NASA&#8217;s use of private companies for space travel as a giant leap for profiteering. I&#8217;ve never thought government should be run like a business &#8212; businesses are, quite often, run quite terribly and the entire point is to make money. Government should be run like a non-profit. Farming out government &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1002,123,1001],"class_list":["post-6565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crew-dragon","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-space-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6566,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565\/revisions\/6566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}