SpaceX: Government Isn’t Much Better at Contracting Out Than at Doing It Themselves
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Government ‘Success’ - SpaceX-Contractor-Style We less government types want the government doing as little as conceivably possible. Fortunately for us - so did the Founding Fathers. And they drafted and ratified the Constitution to do exactly that - limit the federal government’s activities to a few, specifically proscribed things. And the Founders strenuously recommended that state and local governments not do very much either. Because they knew a fundamental truth of life: Government stinks at doing everything. Because…human nature. Behold again my Wallet Rule: If you go out on a Friday night with your wallet - and you go out the following Friday night with my wallet - on which Friday night are you going to have more fun? Obviously, you’re going to have a whole lot more fun with my wallet – because you don’t care what my wallet looks like at the end of the evening. Well, government is always on other peoples’ wallets – ours. In gambling parlance – they’re playing with house money. Government will thus never spend money as wisely or well as the people who earned it – from whom government takes it. It is why H.L. Mencken wisely, rightly
SpaceX: Government Isn’t Much Better at Contracting Out Than at Doing It Themselves
SpaceX: Government Isn’t Much Better at…
SpaceX: Government Isn’t Much Better at Contracting Out Than at Doing It Themselves
Government ‘Success’ - SpaceX-Contractor-Style We less government types want the government doing as little as conceivably possible. Fortunately for us - so did the Founding Fathers. And they drafted and ratified the Constitution to do exactly that - limit the federal government’s activities to a few, specifically proscribed things. And the Founders strenuously recommended that state and local governments not do very much either. Because they knew a fundamental truth of life: Government stinks at doing everything. Because…human nature. Behold again my Wallet Rule: If you go out on a Friday night with your wallet - and you go out the following Friday night with my wallet - on which Friday night are you going to have more fun? Obviously, you’re going to have a whole lot more fun with my wallet – because you don’t care what my wallet looks like at the end of the evening. Well, government is always on other peoples’ wallets – ours. In gambling parlance – they’re playing with house money. Government will thus never spend money as wisely or well as the people who earned it – from whom government takes it. It is why H.L. Mencken wisely, rightly
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