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Subject: How to solve budget problem
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 10:34:19 EST
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RE: Erik Fair's article

Congrats, Erik.
As usual, the most intelligent, imaginative, and courageous solutions
have come - not from the legislative lampreys in Washington or from
the sadly deluded types like George Bush - but from the science fiction
writers and the technical cadre of our country.

There WAS no drug problem in this country until the legislature, in its
infinite stupidity, made the stuff illegal, and created the economic
incentive for organized crime to import it.

Perhaps all we can do is contribute to efforts like the Amateur Space
Telescope and hope that industry will decide that it can make enough
*profit* from STS related technologies to push NASA on its way.

Ad Astra - Carl Hoffmeyer  WB2YHE   drufl!cwh