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Thursday, 28 October 2010
Life On Mars
Houston is in TX-22.
Where the Democratic candidate, Kesha Rogers, is a supporter of Lyndon LaRouche.
I don't get the point, but have a factual correction, which is probably not relevant to the point.
Houston is large enough to contain three Congressional districts, and probably would if the districts were drawn by independent civil servants as they would be in most (all?) other countries.
As it happens, though, while TX-22 is near Houston, it contains no territory in Houston at all. And Houston is a pretty sprawling city.
Yes, I worked that one out last night. My apologies. But much of the NASA workforce and that of its contractors lives in TX-22, and Rogers got herself nominated not least by denouncing Obama's cuts to NASA, a denunciation which ties in perfectly with her support for LaRouche's Mars colonisation scheme.
"The 22nd Congressional district of Texas is home to NASA's Johnson Space Center, a national treasure, and the key to the future greatness of America. My campaign will put space and scientific development back at the top of our nation's list of priorities. A fully-funded NASA energized by a serious manned Moon/Mars colonization project could spearhead a real economic recovery by emphasizing the rapid and massive creation of productive and meaningful employment in the scientific, machine-tool, and related industrial sectors. A real Moon/Mars project would revolutionize overall current methods in physical economic production, which could be used to free our policy making away from the failed monetarist assumptions of the now bankrupt Globalized Free-Market system."
LaRouche and his followers are right to criticize Obama over NASA cuts, which represent a form of creeping privatization in my opinion, and they are correct about the benefits of a strong NASA. Still, it is a bit early to be talking about colonizing the Moon or Mars, to say the least.
I don't get the point, but have a factual correction, which is probably not relevant to the point.
ReplyDeleteHouston is large enough to contain three Congressional districts, and probably would if the districts were drawn by independent civil servants as they would be in most (all?) other countries.
As it happens, though, while TX-22 is near Houston, it contains no territory in Houston at all. And Houston is a pretty sprawling city.
Yes, I worked that one out last night. My apologies. But much of the NASA workforce and that of its contractors lives in TX-22, and Rogers got herself nominated not least by denouncing Obama's cuts to NASA, a denunciation which ties in perfectly with her support for LaRouche's Mars colonisation scheme.
ReplyDeleteFrom her campaign website:
ReplyDelete"The 22nd Congressional district of Texas is home to NASA's Johnson Space Center, a national treasure, and the key to the future greatness of America. My campaign will put space and scientific development back at the top of our nation's list of priorities. A fully-funded NASA energized by a serious manned Moon/Mars colonization project could spearhead a real economic recovery by emphasizing the rapid and massive creation of productive and meaningful employment in the scientific, machine-tool, and related industrial sectors. A real Moon/Mars project would revolutionize overall current methods in physical economic production, which could be used to free our policy making away from the failed monetarist assumptions of the now bankrupt Globalized Free-Market system."
LaRouche and his followers are right to criticize Obama over NASA cuts, which represent a form of creeping privatization in my opinion, and they are correct about the benefits of a strong NASA. Still, it is a bit early to be talking about colonizing the Moon or Mars, to say the least.
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