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President Bush's Money For Space Cometh
citanon writes " The Washington Post reports that
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has delivered, via the omnibus spending bill passed
Nov. 20, the President's full budgetary request of $16.2 billion dollars for NASA as a part of his
Vision for Space Exploration. Despite earlier reports that NASA's
budget will be cut, DeLay, whose congressional district now includes the Johnson Space
Center, was able to deliver the full budgetary request without any debate. NASA now has "enough money to forge ahead on a plan that would reshape U.S. space policy for decades to come."
Despite this early victory, questions regarding the full cost of the program remain unresolved. It is also unclear whether the NASA
bureaucracy will be able to rise to the challenges posed in the initiative and which current projects will suffer as a consequence."
Troll. He's saving millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan. This includes children.
But only if Halliburton gets the (no-bid) contract for extraction. The poor babies would lose all their money if we switched to fusion power!
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
Great. So to please the ?Outlaw Haliburton Crowd? we send it out for bid; get underbid by a Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and German international conglomerate and you start to bitch about outsourcing jobs to other countries and ?putting? down the hard working American manufacturing community. Poor babies and your hypocrisy.
--"Sorry for the inconvience." Gods Last Words to his Creation
DNA, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
BITCHES!
(this is for all those who are using this to complain directly or indirectly about the current administration)
This is something GREAT for our country and ultimately our economy. Other countries will be begging to jump on board with us and help explore the universe around us. The new systems and soultions required to do next generation space experimentation will drive further advances in other areas.
And all you can do is bash the president, say we can't afford it, that it is a bad decision, etc. All because you dislike his other policies. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
This is what really makes me sick about people. They get a diamond ring from someone they don't like and they throw it in the outhouse. Morons.
I can't remember the number of times that I have read a discussion about NASA that was not replete with +5 insightful rants about how underfunded NASA is. Now that the government is increasing funding everyone is getting +5 insightfuls for naysaying the increase in funding. WHAT?!?!
For those who are politically motivated to attack the current administration under all circumstances, good or bad, just remember that NASA funding under the Clinton administration fell:
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/bowyer/030204. (I put in a Google search for "NASA funding clinton administration" and hit "I'm feeling lucky" to get the stats)
Please, have the maturity to take the good with the bad, be grateful for the things that happen that you like, and bide your time until the next chance to change things comes along. You never know who may be listening to what you say. If you use this as an opportunity to vent your dissatisfaction against the current administration when your preferred representatives get elected they might just look back and think that this is just not that important to you. (You in the collective sense)
As for myself, I agree that this is massively important to us. It is, IMHO, one of the areas that the USA can demonstrate that we can work with other nations in a harmonious way. Maybe I am a bit utopian, but I think that the questions that space exploration ultimately confronts (not the technical of how to get there, but what is there and why is it like it is) are universal with mankind. Because of this I think that they provide a chance for people to set aside things that can divide them and concentrate on a common goal. Sounds kinda sappy, but I believe that it is true. Whether I like the government or not, I see this increase in funding and dedication to this cause by the administration as a Good Thing.
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
And I think similarly and as well about what Clinton did to the Democrats. The DLC and the PNAC, among others, have brought true fanaticism into American politics like it was in the early Cold War.
But still, a cult of personality still requires a vast retinue of followers. I can't just slap blame upon a few politicans at the top of the Imperial organization. For every Darth Vader or Moff Tarkin, there must be thousands to tens of thousands of of administrators, directing hundreds of thousands to millions of Imperial troopers and other operatives. The entire system is leaning heavily Fascist. The lean is so pronounced and the mass doing the leaning is so large, that it is now inevitable. People are going to start disappearing in America soon. The secret death squads may only be 2 years away now. After all, America has been running death squads around the world for about 2 generations, so all she has to do is bring them home for a "domestic op".
It's a good era to be armed in America.
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]