we didn't do THAT good a job, so we're gonna need you to keep the cash flowing."

instead the MIC, long experienced in warehousing unused engineers while rolling in cost-plus contracts, managed to keep the contracts and dump the workers--it's almost like alchemy

even if the tenders' tanks have to be white on the outside or everything locks up because *the fuel's too warm*

that's how the whole aero"space" sector has worked: if a paid-for project didn't work, well, it was clearly because they didn't get enough money in the first place! ("Blue Sky Tribe" by David Beers is great on this)

the generals say it, the Pentagon contract reviewers say it, the witty professors say it, the Senators say it, the charming-tiki-party-host engineers say it, their wives say it in their box socials and Space-Age churches, their kids overhear it before they're released into the cul-de-sacs, the newspapers say it, the sci-fi magazines say it, the mayors say it, the teachers say it, the soda jerks say it, the swim coaches say it--what sort of psychotic parade-raining Luddite would totally reject this notion?

it's also an ideological statement: Neil deGrasse Tyson's saying it when he says doubling NASA's budget will "transform the country from a sullen, dispirited nation, weary of economic struggle, to one where it has reclaimed its 20th century birthright to dream of tomorrow": it's like the tinpot dictatorships that try "voodoo development" where 1. if rich countries have stadiums and supermarkets, 2. we build big stadiums (some with more seating capacity than the town they're set in) and supermarkets, 3. we get as rich! or at least show off our modernity, so how can you say we have starving kids!

McDoogles, Burger Duke, and IHOG (International House of Gyros).

problem we would be much better off. The wars have and still are better at creating terrorists than stopping them. I think ISIS is the best example of this.

don't take anything he says all that seriously.

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