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Bill In U.S. House Plans Manned Mars Mission
maddogsparky writes "Spaceref.com has a copy of a bill laying out a roadmap for NASA to send a manned mission to Mars by 2022. Highlights include an manned asteroid landing, building a research outpost on one of Mars' moons and actually providing funds to start mission planning."
In this day and age we need to be thinking about things like making sure there is enough money going into welfare, war on drugs, war on terrorism, enforcement of gun laws, etc and not on crazy stuff like going to mars. I hope this bill is struck down as it might be damaging from investment into the social programs of this country.
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There were all these out of work techies in the US going to work for al Qaeda terrorist cells after 9/11 because they were pissed off that the government expanded the H-1B visas by 40% in the middle of a tech downturn despite the fact that over 80% of the US public opposed expansion of the H-1B program. George Bush Jr. figures out most of the trecherous techies are aging boomer males who, having paid huge amounts in taxes over the years, are now being punished by the welfare bureaucrats. Their crime: Applying for welfare while white and male. Thinking fast, POTUS gets his boys in Congress to do an end-around: A crypto-welfare program for the angry white male techies, giving them what they've always wanted since they saw Sputnik fly overhead as children: "Jobs" working with space stuff. Since the time horizon isn't until they retire 20 years from now, no one will be able to hold them to account for the failure to accomplish any of the promised objectives of the program. There is ample precedent for this sort of scam so little risk discount need be applied to the investment. The program may cost tens of billions -- even a hundred billion over those decades, but compared to the damage those bitter old white guys could do, savvy Bush has economically side-stepped a disaster!
Seastead this.