[Notary Sojac]

As you and I have discussed before, the U.S. "space program" has shifted its focus since about the late '80s away from exploring space and towards maintaining a steady flow of Congressional pork to guarantee tenured jobs at NASA locations in Florida and Texas, and NASA's favored contractors (Lockheed, ATK Thiokol, Boeing).

No space projects that do not shovel significant tax dollars toward these sacred cows will receive more than minimal support. That's your problem, right there!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You’re looking at the symptoms.

The terminal disease is that we have NO STATED program to BUILD outward.

[lentulusgracchus]

No space projects that do not shovel significant tax dollars toward these sacred cows will receive more than minimal support.

I don't think you get it.

This guy is auctioning off all the livestock and knocking down the barns, and then he's going to sell the house and the dirt to the Chinese for cheap -- just to spite the heirs, because he hates them.

Get it now?