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Rockets, doughnuts could face ax in US budget cuts
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| 2/11/11
| Kerry Sheridan - AFP
Posted on 02/11/2011 12:08:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: Ben Mugged
There are far far worse ways to spend tax money.
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posted on
02/11/2011 12:44:23 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: righttackle44
If MY money is going to buy Hansen’s doughnuts, that’s a WASTE. :p
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posted on
02/11/2011 12:45:59 PM PST
by
Politicalmom
(America-The Land of the Sheep, the Home of the Caved.)
To: Politicalmom
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posted on
02/11/2011 12:46:39 PM PST
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
To: NormsRevenge
For example, hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent each month on a NASA program to return Americans to the moon, even though the US space agency, Congress and President Barack Obama have agreed not to proceed with it. Old, rundown buildings are draining 300 million dollars a year from NASA in repair costs alone, and at least one space telescope project has run billions over budget, more than four times initial estimates.
There is a correlation between investment in R&D and improvements in technology. I would be very careful in further eroding the capabilities of NASA. The Hubble Telescope is costly but it has advanced our knowledge of the universe a hundredfold.
We should be investing 10% of GDP in R&D, but we are at less than one quarter of 1%. Be careful lest you wipe out any hope for the next generations of Americans; we already have enslaved our grandchildren with debt.
Better to get rid of UN, HUD, EPA, NPR, and many, many other useless, unproductive programs, than to wipe out our future by further degrading investment in R&D.
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posted on
02/11/2011 12:59:53 PM PST
by
olezip
To: NormsRevenge
For example, hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent each month on a NASA program to return Americans to the moon, even though the US space agency, Congress and President Barack Obama have agreed not to proceed with it. Oh, naturally. Lets hack up NASA and turn whats left of it into Muslim outreach and elementary school propaganda, and lets keep intact the enormous runup in the rest of the budget which is just lathered in pork and BS, like Dept of Commerce, Education, Agriculture, HUD, and so on.
Low hanging fruit where you dont have to fight the huge collection of welfare and unionized dependents... Oh, and note that it was Obambi who slashed off a trip to the moon, not Congress. Thanks for the propaganda missive, Yahoo.
To: Ben Mugged
I'm with you on this one.
Look at the technological advances that have come out of the space program.
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posted on
02/11/2011 1:22:25 PM PST
by
painter
(No wonder democrats don't mind taxes.THEY DON'T PAY THEM !)
To: NormsRevenge
at least one space telescope project has run billions over budget, more than four times initial estimates. And yet the Hubble Space Telescope has been out there doing the job it was designed for, since 1990.
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posted on
02/11/2011 1:58:03 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
To: NormsRevenge
If IsSocial(Program) Then
Program.Delete
Else
Program.Evaluate
End IF
Maybe when people have had enough, it will be that simple....again.
(Ok, so I'm making up my own programming constructs...sue me.)
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posted on
02/11/2011 2:31:40 PM PST
by
domeika
To: olezip
I agree with you, if we can get NASA back to what it is suppose to do. That is study and explore space. Get rid of the PC reaching out to the muslims crap. The technology we got out of the space program has helped us be leaders in the world. There is a reason china is spending alot of money on space exploration.
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