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People Believe NASA Funded As Well As US Military

Posted by Zonk on from the nasa-engineers-crying-into-their-keyboards-right-now dept.

QuantumG writes "An essay on the Space Review site is reporting that a just-completed study indicates the average citizen has no idea how much funding NASA gets. Respondents generally estimated NASA's allocation of the national budget to be approximately 24% (it's actually closer to 0.58%) and the Department of Defense budget to be approximately 33% (it's actually closer to 21%). In other words, respondents believed NASA's budget approaches that of the Department of Defense, which receives almost 38 times more money. Once informed of the actual allocations, they were almost uniformly surprised. One of the more vocal participants exclaimed, 'No wonder we haven't gone anywhere!'"

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  1. Re:Spacetravel does not make oil by moosesocks · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not that we didn't create the situation; If we hadn't started the war, we wouldn't be in this position in the first place. However, suggesting that the Iraq war was originally about profiting off of oil is ludicrous.


    No. It was about Halliburton and a thousand other no-bid contractors profiting off of everything else.

    I do hope that Bush, Cheney, and their entire administration are put on trial after the next president takes oath.
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  2. Re:Military budget by toddhisattva · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just can't believe USA people put up with spending 21% of their national budget on the military. Yes, it should be a higher percentage, achieved by getting rid of the unconstitutional spending on individuals' specific welfare - $1.527 *trillion*. Unfortunately, that $1.527 *trillion* buys a lot of votes.

    And one good way to make sure that NASA is as well-funded as the military is to roll NASA into the military.

    But, since the military is only a small part of the Federal budget, maybe we should roll NASA into the Social Security administration. Then NASA will have more money than the military.
  3. Re:Iraq War by urcreepyneighbor · · Score: 0, Troll

    The US wouldn't have had to go to war if Saddam would have been a good little boy and proven to the US & UN that he was clean. He didn't, so we handled the situation.

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