The other day, I posted about how the focus of the space budget tends to be about "jobs," rather than wealth, or value to the taxpayers. Here's a typical example in the Houston Chronicle.

Several who testified Wednesday urged the House Economic Development Committee to increase state support for efforts to recruit new military and commercial aerospace companies to Texas.

Nice goal, but more thought has to be given to this than just getting the Congress to pony up more bucks for NASA. Like markets, and investment...