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Congress Cuts NASA's Budget On Apollo Anniversary
colonist writes "A House appropriations subcommittee voted to cut NASA's budget request by 7 percent on the 35th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon. The panel also cut environment and science programs, but increased funding for veterans' affairs. NASA would get $15.1 billion next year, $229 million below this year and $1.1 billion below the President's request. Most of the cuts are on new initiatives. The subcommittee is the first step of a long budget process and major changes to the bill are expected."
I guess NASA will not be using those million dollar wrenches anymore.
I wouldn't mind tax cuts to NASA if I saw similar percentage tax cuts to the U.S. war budget. As a U.S. citizen I'm damned tired of forking over money to a vastly-oversized military so that my politicians can measure their dick sizes by bombing other nations.
Let's put an end to Pax Americana and world domination. I don't want to dominate anyone and i really don't give a shit if two groups of people in Bumfuck, Nowhere want to kill each other in huge numbers. Let them, I say. So long as we have markets to sell to why should we care what sort of genocidal insanity some shit-hole on the other side of the planet is engaged in?
Cut the war budget along with NASA's and I'll be cheering congress on, for once.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Gee, so they pass a huge tax cut for Bill Gates and Warren Buffer and balance that from the environment and science budgets. I hope everyone who thinks that this is as f'ed up as I do vote for regime change here in DC.
Now it's 2004. We've been to the Moon, we gave it up because we wanted to spend the money on killing Vietnamese people, and nobody seems to care anymore.
We cared enough to classify another set of folks (Arab Mulsims) as The Enemy {tm}, so we can now feel all warm and fuzzy about spending hundreds of billions killing them too. In another generation, I'm sure we'll find another set of people, probably South American (those damned Brazzies!), to waste more money on murdering.
Empires: These murder machines are so damned expensive to run. We should outsource and offshore the killers and their killing machines to save money for the next round of assaults.
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]
Yes.
Not only would the World Trade Center have been destroyed, but by now the Sears Tower and TRW pyramid as well. When given ultimatums by terrorists, the United States would cower in fear like Spain and the Phillipines, unable to do anything but give in to their demands.
When the pathetic Europeons need us to stop their recurring racist violence, like in the Balkans, we will be able to send one APC and some bottle rockets.
Humanity's freedom is guaranteed by the might of the United States military.
And if that's not enough for you, there are spinoffs like this here Internet thingie. If NASA's budget is too small, maybe NASA should be turned into a military operation!