Space Cadet wrote:
I'm as prospace as the next person on here.
And would love to see us expand and develop space,
but I'm enough of realist to know that most people in general and
congress specifically
look at space as a luxury that we can't afford right now.

No. The opposition was exclusively from republican senators.
The House passed the bill, and the common people in the U.S.
and elsewhere have always supported space.

Unless you can come up with something concrete that we could do in
space that would
immediately and sustain ably stimulate the economy. They are going to
cut out what pork/fat
they find/perceive.


The 200 million for the National Science Foundation is
"pork"...

Well, in that frame of mind, I would like to remind you that the
cost of the tax cuts for the upper 1% of the population cost
(in billions)

2001 3.9
2002 38.9
2003 71.2
2004 87.3
2005 64.5
2006 70.9
2007 72.6
2008 79.5
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TOTAL 488.8 BILLIONS spent already.

In that context, spending 98 million (not even 0.01% of that) in
school nutrition is a preposterous idea.

With just current spending that makes for more than 30 YEARS of
NASA (Assuming a 15 billion NASA budget).

(Source http://www.ctj.org/pdf/gwbdata.pdf)

Just my $0.02

Space Cadet

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Moon Society - St. Louis Chapter

http://www.moonsociety.org/chapters/stlouis/

The Moon Society is a non-profit educational and
scientific foundation formed to further scientific
study and development of the moon.

Good idea to explore the moon. Pity that you do not follow
your ideas, and think that money spend in space and science
is a waste.

No, it isn't.

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jacob navia
jacob at jacob point remcomp point fr
logiciels/informatique
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