We shouldn’t follow policies based on whether they “create jobs,” actually government-created jobs are job destroyers on net, as the resources it takes to create them must be taken from the more productive private sector. Basic econ 101, I suggest you read Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, or Economics for Dummies by....I forget his name.
And yes, I do think the military-industrial sector is bloated and has too much sway in Washington. That hardly makes me a terrorist-loving America-hating commie who doesn’t care about national security.
Conservatives would complain about any other instances of fraud, abuse, or overspending when it comes to any other area of government or government subcontractors. Yet when it comes to defense spending, it’s never too much? We have to buy every product the defense contractors can come up with? Sorry, but I think we should be way more careful with our defense than this. I think all this waste makes defense more expensive than it really ought to be, which *hurts* our country and our safety.
And manned space flight is a tremendous waste of tax-payer money. Unmanned space flight accomplishes way more for way less. Space ought to be freed up so private enterprises can get more involved. When the technology is there, with a better, more economical means of supporting human life in space as well as less costly means of getting into space (using rockets to get us up there is a huge, huge, HUGE cost), then manned space flight will make more sense.
Ought is the right word. Until the US cancels/withdraws from the UN Space Treaty any private space enterprise is limited to LEO and that only on government approval.
Don't expect any major US space activity, beyond robotic missions planned under previous administrations. Hussein has better things to do, and places to spend our “scarce” dollars.
...”And manned space flight is a tremendous waste of tax-payer money.”...
We don’t need another hero? I think we do...a crew or maybe even a family.