NASA Budget 1958 - 2003 in constant (1996) dollars

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:08:21 +0000 (UTC), Sander Vesik
wrote:

I would like NASA to spend America's hard earned tax dollars for
more
than the paper airplanes they have been buying last 15-years.
It remains to be seen if the OSP will result in hardware or just
another waste of money with no results like the X-33, X-38, HL-20,
NASP. Does that promote science?

Hard earned tax dollars? NASA's budget is an utterly insignificant
amount of the budget, which at any rate is prognosed to have a
$455 billion deficit this year. So instead of as 'hard earned tax
dollars' you should say 'a small amount of spare that dropped out
of the budget, both taxed and borrowed'.

I am talking about the AMERICAN people's hard earned tax dollars. Over
my workng lifetime of 30+ years I have contributed thousands tax
dollars to NASA,
as have all other working Americans. That works out to hundreds of
hours of my time that I have worked had the money was taken from me
and given to NASA. Since 1958 it adds up to over $ 500-Billion dollars
of hard working AMERICAN's money. I expect that money to be spent
wisely. It has not been in many cases.

Your e-mail address is from Estonia. How many tax dollars have you
contributed to NASA? How much of your personal labor has been taxed
and used to pay for a NASA space project? When you have contributed
1-cent towrard NASA, maybe I will value your opinion. Until then, you
are just full of hot air.


--
Rusty Barton - Antelope, California

I am talking about the AMERICAN people's hard earned tax dollars. Over
my workng lifetime of 30+ years I have contributed thousands tax
dollars to NASA,
as have all other working Americans. That works out to hundreds of
hours of my time that I have worked had the money was taken from me
and given to NASA. Since 1958 it adds up to over $ 500-Billion dollars
of hard working AMERICAN's money. I expect that money to be spent
wisely. It has not been in many cases.

I'd be more ****ed at the billions in tax dollars that went to the Vietnam war
and other things if I were a tax payer since 1958...I'd imagine what someone
has given to NASA in their life time is only a fraction of what's been given to
government programs that have gone no where...that have gone to pointless
conflicts...

If more of those tax dollars were going to NASA maybe then the program would be
in better shape.

-A.L.