On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:30:39 -0600, Joe Strout wrote:

I find this encouraging ....

Good for you.

..... they can do the math and understand that scrapping NASA entirely
wouldn't make much difference to the national budget ....

When did facts and logic have anything to do with politics? Did the
veterans' groups and housing associations who lobbied so hard to kill
Space Station Freedom 12 years ago think it wouldn't make much
difference to the budget?

If a hypothetical Kerry administration supports Moon/Mars, more power
to them. But right now I don't have any reason to believe he would
any more than the last Democrat in the White House did, especially
that in public statements after Bush's announcement, Kerry joined the
Legion of the Unsupportive. If he were to change his views in office,
great, but I'll believe it when I see it.





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