As the several efforts at Trucking, Air Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial services deregulation shows
What you get from privatization is higher costs for all but the most profitable segment of the business, monopolism and eventual fraud, deceit and theft.
When there is no hound, the fox will have chicken dinner every night

And the net Delta V from earth will still be no greater, either nuclear thermal or chemical fuel. See? just that simple

As for that claim, I refer you to a Grade School web site...so you will stop embarrassing yourself.
exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/rktpow.html
And THAT is for an ideal rocket, which can never happen
Don't forget the weight of the shielding, cooling system and waste heat radiator

I compare exhaust velocity (temperature or equivalent) with final velocity, see Tsiolkovski equation
http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/rktpow.html
for a GRADE SCHOOL EDUCATION you clearly need.
See that "exhaust velocity" figure? Exhaust velocity IS (linearly related to)temperature!

Not without an electric generator, a cooling tower, a huge thermoelectric array and about 250,000 excess lbs...which will competely nullify any advantage over chemical rockets. And let's not forget that 62% wasted heat!

and reality, hope wins the money run every time
There will never be a nuclear thermal engine with an exhaust velocity higher than the melting point of the nozzle materials used (circa 3800 F) and thus, not one single iota of longer range flight for a given rocket size.
What's available for non-electrical accelerators is thermal velocity exhaust which most of us know means a maximum final Delta V from source of circa 58,000 ft/sec and that won't even get us to Jupiter in a lifetime (baring gravitational slingshots, an entirely different issue)
And electrical conversion of thermal energies are losers, with a minimum of 50% of the energy lost as radiant heat (Thanks Carnow).
So, nothing good here. Unless you can fission and confine the daughter products without mechanical contact (think gas fission at plasma temperatures) you will not go any faster than a chemical rocket would move you over a trans-martian orbit.

Bluntly, the more statist the nation becomes, the more intelligence the nation displays. China before Mao? Stateless and ignorant. Now? Running the world
The Soviet Union? Before Lenin and Trotsky, feudal, ignorant and helpless. During Stalin, absolute victory over the Hitlerian war-state.
In the end, only the organized nation-state can move out of the stone age.

What part of 1915 has anything to do with the Christian Crusade mass murder of innocent Iraqis?
Hmm?
That's the kind of argument failure called "non sequitur".
Seriously, try to do better in your replies!

Yes, it is worse off, as the slaughter of 1 million innocent Iraqis to "protect our allies such as Israel...and our control over a significant portion of the world's oil" demonstrates.
When the leaders of the 'free world' can say that out loud (Dickhead Cheney in PNAC open letter to Bill Clinton, dated 1996) and then DO that mass murder and NO ONE brings them to justice, the world IS worse off.

Capitalism is destroying arable land, drinkable water, breathable air, freedom and individuality for a spy-slave-prison state of wealth for the few at the expense of all. harly 'hate' to note these demonstrated facts.

Actually, Capitalism is only unparalleled in extracting worth from labor. One has only to look at the working conditions of the Chinese 'volunteer labor' in those factories/barracks where hundreds of thousands live at the beck and call of Capital to realize the individual had far more personal gain as a farmer under communism than he or she has in a guard tower ringed, machine gun toting gestapo riddled 'workplace' under Capitalism.
Ultimately, the effects of Capitalism are mass deaths, the extinction of species, and the displacement of workers into destitution.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Here, simple enough even for you.http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Socialism
Public CONTROL not ownership, CONTROL over economic decisions is the defining characteristic of socialism.
Thus, German bank laws of the 1990's through today forbidding banks or other financial intermediaries from using shareholder or public funds to invest in speculation schemes like the Goldman-Sachs initiated Mortgage Bundled Debt Instruments scheme is Public Control for Public purpose...and why Germany emerged from the Capitalist collapse of 2007 in better condition than most European nations, excepting the Iskenders who imprisoned Bankers ex post facto for engaging in conspiracy.

Actually, he was a 'gentleman's "C"' at Yale, and an undistinguished 'scholar' at Harvard, whose Thesis has NEVER been cited in any paper anywhere in any formal journal of Business.
He was a Connecticut Yankee who summered in Texas, attended Maine private school and graduated at the very bottom of his class, all while gathering FOUR arrests for major crimes including B&E, Drunken Driving with injuries (albiet slight), Malicious Mischief and Speed so as to endanger.
His Administration holds the record for MOST recessions and WORST GDP, Job and Wage Growth since Herbert Hoover, who had the misfortune of following Coolidge.

I remind you that your loss of rights revealed by Snowden happened pre-2009. Who was President from 2001 - 2009? Hmm?
See? A Republican administration is far less interested in your safety than they are in THEIR control, so why whine about Obama for demanding the same rights and powers you willingly surrendered to the "Very-very-sorry" chimp?

It was RIGHT in Adam Smith's day, it was Right when Marx commented on it as an exemplar of the worthlessness of Capital as a source of reward with more Labor-Units (to use Smith's term) and it is right NOW, as Money Machines called Corporations buy elections so they can take more homes and hold the owners guilty of debt based on the market value established by Capital and then slashed, again by Capital (in fact, the very same Capitalists)