How socialists argue re NASA and the Moon

Read George Gonzalez's answer to Is this a space vision Obama lacked? Going to the moon using competitive commercial interests? on Quora

DDB: So why are several businesses lined up to compete for contracts?

GG: Ha ha ha. Such contracts have a clause in them that companies just LOVE. It says something like “Fartknocker Industries shall make a “best effort” to do whatever limited thing is described below. Failure is an option. Government’s most extreme recourse if Fartknocker can’t fulfill even 1% of what is promised is that Government contract agents will have to wait 30 minutes before accepting lucrative jobs from Fartknocker Industries.”

Companies LOVE “best effort” contracts. They also try to add in “cost plus 5%”, then the more they inflate the costs, the more profit they make. Free cake for everyone!

So GG feels their reflexive dismissal which was not even true, is funny, when caught out