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!"

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Re:Do we?

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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.