On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:43:56 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

The military is not the pork here. The military protects the entire country, whereas pork barrel expenditures are favors to local constituencies, expenditures not spelled out in the Constitution, BTW.

A strong military is necessary in today's world. That doesn't mean
that the military in the U.S. is the largest benefactor of pork,
however.

But you suggested in your earlier post:

"studying the Earth and its climate, it makes good sense they should shift
what resources they have to that"

That effectively excludes the "other stuff" which then leaves the US without a space program. But that's what you socialists have wanted all along.

Of course. If they are resource limited, they have to adjust research
to focus on the highest priorities, which is clearly studying the
Earth.