Outsource Outer Space, Nationalize Inner Space

So our President Barack Obama proposes to outsource America's manned space program to private industry. The administration says that:

... the agency's existing exploration plans are too slow, expensive and rely on too many backward-looking technologies to keep the U.S. in the forefront of such endeavors. --WSJ

Who could disagree with this? But if anything would seem to be a candidate for government it would be a sustained scientific, pioneering enterprise like going to Mars. (Not to mention more immediately critical national security concerns.) A manned mission to Mars would be really expensive and right now we don't know how to do it. We would probably learn. But The One points out that the government's approach has been slow, expensive, and backward.

You can gather where this is going--that is, for anyone with any consistency of thought it's clear (maybe not to the level of let me be clear clarity).

If the government in charge of space was slow, expensive, and backward wait until they are in charge of health care.

If we've got something broken we don't want to wait for years for it to be fixed. Because by then we might be dead. Move over, Joycelyn Elders.

I don't know about your inner space but I am very touchy about mine.

And I don't want it nationalized.

P.S. Our space being invaded already.