Re: NASA Budget 1958 - 2003 in constant (1996) dollars

[Rusty B]

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

[MasterShrink]

>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.