It is bad enough that the Clinton Administration is allowing political considerations to enter into, let alone to drive, decisions concerning the further U.S. involvement in the Mir program that should be made exclusively on the basis of realistic net assessments of the considerable safety and financial costs weighed against what are, at best, limited prospective scientific and technical benefits.
Because their lower funding costs would make them more profitable than others, and enable them -- as it enabled Fannie and Freddie -- to drive competitors from any markets they enter.
