The Kingdom of Spain
There is simply no denying that the ESA has been an extremely wasteful vacuum of resources. So far, I find it very difficult to justify the billions of Euros which have been spent on the organisation. What's the return on investment so far? If there's even has been any return on investment at all, I'd like to hear a justification of the spending to the hundreds of millions of working class people across Europe, and let them know how they've benefited from having billions spent on this agency and how it's worked to liberate them from the shackles of oppression. Please, someone enlighten me on this.
Likewise, those championing reform should actually please use this time to put their ideas forward. Chatter of reforming the ESA has been present since the very foundation of the organisation, yet we've never had any actual reform proposed. For how long must we continue to enable this wasteful project? Is anyone actually going to have any courage to stand up for working class people and do something about this?
The only reform of the ESA I would support would be if it actually worked as a proper European-wide space agency that made genuine and impactful progress in scientific discovery and advancement and that disseminated its findings and knowledge to all EU member states. However, that is very far from what it is now. Currently, it's a weak ragtag team of very few national agencies, and rather disappointingly, also private for-profit agencies which European workers are subsidizing for whatever reason. Please don't even get me started on how the organisation was essentially captured by the interest of a billionaire capitalist who then attempted to use it for his own personal gain on the backs of the European people. The proletariat will remember Elon Musk and his corruption when the Worker's Revolution inevitably happens, I can promise you that much.
However, I know that a much more cooperative and legitimate space agency is off the table, since most member states who have their own spaces agencies will likely want to keep theirs entirely independent. I mean, that's what we are seeing now. I don't think we'll ever get most national space agencies on board, mostly for national security reasons - which are completely legitimate reasons - along with other reasons, of which the National Sovereignty Police will surely let us know. Thus, I am not sure if if there is a viable and agreeable path for reform that even exists.
I am also skeptical of all this talk of throwing even more money into the fire and supporting X, Y and Z new projects for the ESA until it's completely reformed. It makes no sense to have workers across all of Europe supporting an organisation that simply isn't working for them.
I believe that the ESA need to either be completely defunded until it's reformed, or dismantled entirely. Unfortunately, I just can't see much more of a path for the former, so I shall support the latter in the mean time.
Bp. Karinn Lallana
Councillor for Inquista