America is the way it is because of freedom and liberty in the general population and in the general commerce and innovation performed by We the People.

Private manned spaceflight since Dragon became operational in 2020 is just one sign of the advancements possible with freedom and liberty. Had we had similar freedoms decades ago, in the space industry, commercial space would be a serious powerhouse by now. The ISS would have been obsolete on the drawing board, with commercial space stations performing far more than the monstrous ISS does.

Unmanned use of space has likewise boomed due to the freedoms experienced by commercial companies. This all started in the very late 1990s, when the government finally allowed Earth observation satellites. Cubesats were another factor, especially because they encouraged manufacturers to develop hardware for small satellites. The smallsat industry is booming much faster than the small launch vehicles can launch.

Which brings us back to the fiasco that is the FAA. As Robert has noted in other postings, the FAA (and regulators in other nations) stifles the new launch companies. How are we to have competition and free markets when governments are picking winners and losers?

Even historically, the FAA was not the great help that it was intended to be. It was intended to prevent airplane accidents, but its methods were to incrementally correct problems as they arose. Somewhere around 1980 (yes, after deregulation), the U.S. airline industry realized that at the rate of increase in the number of flights, there would soon be weekly airline accidents in the headlines, scaring passengers away from what was even then the safest form of transportation. So it was the airlines themselves (not the FAA) that got serious about safety and developed many methods to improve safety and prevent passenger deaths. It has worked amazingly well.

My point? The FAA is not the cure that government thinks it is, and it never was. Once again, we are discovering that government is not the solution; it is the problem.

Remember:
Business friendly=worker hostile

“Fading Industry in the West as Energy Policy Consequences Surface – The Grey Zone Surge Begins”
September 10, 2024 | Sundance
“The West spreads the wealth to the Grey zone, then the 3rd world (non west) starts to replace the economic strength of the West because they are not restrained by the insufferable policies of the climate control/energy policy group.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/10/fading-industry-in-the-west-as-energy-policy-consequences-surface-the-grey-zone-surge-begins/

Personally I’ve seen the collapse of tech job salaries from the mass importation of foreign labor into the U.S.

My company went with a new health care provider this year and all the doctors in the network accepting new patients are women ESL immigrants from China and India. Looks like the medical field is the next industry to be destroyed.

Its time we let the rest of the world catch up.

The left forgets that America is the way it is because of its geography, psychology, religion, and law.