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  • What a loaded headline

    In return, SpaceX would give the government around 692 acres of property it has purchased elsewhere in Cameron County, according to the documents. Some of these tracts would be added to the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, about 20 miles up the coast.

    I’m not saying this is a good trade, but the quantity and that some will be added to another refuge was well down the page.

    It’s a trade, not giving. (Even if really bad)

    Better headline: Trump may trade 775 acres of wildlife refuge for 692 acres of less sensitive land in unfair trade. (Or in damaging trade)













  • I made an edit, you might have missed about the government side, but i’ll just post it again here.

    You really need to separate sold services from government giving them money. Grants can be a different thing, but when the government pays them $100 million to launch a rocket, they get a $100 million and launch a rocket. It’s not some sort of life line or subsidy. This is in general as well for sold services/contracts, not targeted at SpaceX. SpaceX survived early on because of these, but they were still selling a service the government wanted. Also, the government is saving 10’s of billions of dollars using SpaceX vs alternatives.

    Nothing is being “held up by government largess” with SpaceX.