Clinton Says NASA's Budget Should Be Increased

Terov writes "This story at CNN.com says President Clinton has announced that the time has come to increase NASA's budget. All I can say is, "It's about time!""

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Thank you Bill! Now what does this mean?

[Ethidium]

NASA has been starving for funds since the collapse of the USSR, and it's high time they got some. Maybe they'll be able to throw this "faster-better-cheaper" crap out the window and onto the scrap heap where it belongs.

Now, what does this mean for us?

-Higher taxes? I'm all for it. If it means NASA gets more money, I for one wil gladly pay higher taxes.

-Cuts in other programs? I'm all for it. Stop buying the air force bombers they don't want, stop buying the marines VTOL planes that crash more often than they fly, stop letting the FBI read my email. And we all know that's not the end of the list.

Original Science Magazine Interview

[�nubis]

Here's the original interview Science Magazine did with Clinton:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/290/ 5500/2236

The CNN article was basically on a subset of this interview. Also please remember that this doesn't mean that NASA will get more money, just that a president who is about to leave office thinks that they should get more money.

Clinton's relevance

[SubtleNuance]

In related news Bill Clinton also promised to do something about curing cancer, giving gifts of gold and murr to orphans, promote real American Democracy, end private campaign funding, recount Florida ballots and rescued a kitten from a Tree.

Way to go Bill - promise stuff now that you are irrelevant. Where the hell was the increase in NASA budgets when people cared what the hell you thought?

You've got to be kidding

[asa]

"So kick back, relax, and let NASA enjoy its already massive budget."

Are you a total asshole. NASA's budget has been cut every year since the Republicans took over in the Congress. They forced NASA to scrap some of it's most exciting missions that had been in planning for years. "already massive budget"?!?! What the hell are you smoking. NASA gets less than 5% of what the US Military gets! They get less than 1% of the total US Federal spending!

• 2000 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE-MILITARY
  Total Department of Defense-Military
  279,924,000,000
• 2000 NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
  Total National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  13,602,000,000
• 2000 Federal Government totals
  1,801,079,000,000

...And it's worse for 2001. We're losing missions to Mars that cost less than a single US Military vehicle and you're saying relax! Sorry, not gonna happen. You might do yourself some good actually looking at some US Fed Budget figures.

--Asa

Oh Sure...

[Greyfox]

Now that you're leaving office and your competition has announced that he wants this humungus tax cut, you can advocate spending money like it's going out of style. If he cared so much, why didn't he do anything about it when he was in office?

Don't get me wrong, I believe NASA should get lots more funding than it does, but I really don't trust Clinton's motives for saying so now.