Bent Corner

I hate how rich assholes like Charles Simonyi are able to use their money to put them somewhere the rest of us can only dream of going. In this case, the International Space Station (ISS). Something our taxes pay for. NASA shows that $25.6 billion of tax dollars went into funding the ISS from 1994 to 2005.

I have to believe that all that tax money went into the station for something other then creating an exotic vacation spot for rich pricks like Charles Simonyi.

I understand that the rich are able to get much better medical care then everyone else. I accept the fact that they get much better representation from our elected officials then the rest of us. They also enjoy a criminal legal system that the rest of us aren’t subjected to. They also don’t send their children to fight and die in Iraq or Afghanistan.

What I cannot accept is that they also get to turn space and the ISS into their personal playground.

The fact that he paid off the Russians for this privilege doesn’t dilute my anger over this. Maybe anger is too strong a word. Then again, maybe it’s not.

I’m old enough to remember when NASA used to be cool. I remember when they went to the Moon in rockets designed with slide rules and lots of paper and pencils. Now they go no further then Earth’s orbit in shuttles designed in the 1970’s. They build and fund a space station so ultra rich assholes like Charles Simonyi have somewhere different to go.

He even has a blog. I wish it was on Blogger so I could flag it as inappropriate.