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O'Keefe Under Fire for Hubble, ISS Decisions
chuckpeters writes "The battle over saving Hubble is just starting to heat up! The House Science Committee Democrats released their views and
estimates report. Recommendation number two was that
until Congress gets better information on the long term costs of Bush's
Moon/Mars initiative, NASA's 2005 funding requests should go to existing
programs. The House Science Committee has also decided that
they want to hear from outside experts on Bush's space initiative.
Just as Hubble isn't going quietly into the night, Bush's Moon/Mars plan
isn't going quickly into space!"
I dunno...because some intelligent people are rich?
See, human rights and conservative values are all well and good, but what really affects all of us person in the short term is a president's economic position. And the top five percent of people are getting $2000 back in their pockets this year, thanks to Bush. Kerry has already promised to repeal those cuts.
So the picture looks something like this: vote Bush, get $2000. Vote Kerry, lose $2000 but gain a possible reduction in the deficit.
On a strictly short term economic basis, voting for Bush is a good idea. So if you're intelligent, selfish, and short sighted (and I think there are a lot of us who are), voting Bush is a no-brainer.
Of course, looking just past the next year, you might see that Kerry's drive to keep jobs in the states and fight inflation by fighting deficit spending will probably do more to help the country than giving the richest people more money. But this is a matter of interpretation -- and having a different interpretation is not a sure sign of a lack of intellect.
And that's the problem Kerry has to overcome if he wants to succeed. He has to explain why Bush's economic policies are sufficiently onerous in the longview to justify losing money out of pocket -- and it shouldn't be too hard, considering that Kerry himself stands to lose MILLIONS if his own tax hikes take effect.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Conservatives love killing off all parts of government not associated with the military or law enforcement.
I hadn't thought of this in conjunction with the space program, but it fits in with the current administration's other moves:
No Child Left Behind: Underfund it and make compliance so onerous that the mandate to transfer from failing school to another school becomes an ersatz competition for students.
After the idea of transferring becomes popular, public schools will become privatized.
Social Security: Rely on deficit spending to the extent that Greenspan recommends cutting the Social Security benefits.
After the Social Security funds are raided, privatize it. This is a stated plank of Bush's platform.
Gutting the EPA, Eliminating Medicare leverage for negotiating with pharmaceutical companies, and zero support for organized labor are other examples. I'm sure there are other Bush plans for "getting government out of government," but those are the ones that stick in my mind.
Don't believe Bush is interested in funding anything. He wants to turn over everything to private companies.
You quitting proves that the karma kap worked. The most annoying of the whores shut up. --CmdrTaco