Obama Would Redirect NASA Funding to Education

QuantumG writes "In a recent article on The Space Review, Greg Zsidisin reveals that Barack Obama plans to delay Project Constellation for at least five years, using the redirected funds to nationalize early-education for children under five years old to prepare them for the rigors of kindergarten and beyond, if he is elected president. It is feared that if this happens the Vision for Space Exploration will flounder and that may be the end of human spaceflight altogether."

Comments

O*ama trouble

[ThomasCR]

Well ... avoid at least one of them! Best wishes from EU.

Re:Err. Can we mod summaries?

[LWATCDR]

Sorry but exactly why do you think that Obama really wants any more true political awareness than any other political leader?

All to often "Political Awareness" means indoctrination into think the way we feel they should.

Let me see. Obama supports killing a big chunk of the space program for no good reason and lists a racist as a personal hero.
Yea I am sure that he is the type of leader I want...
Dang I really want a Democrat like Truman, FDR, or even Carter that I could feel good about.

Obama is apparently a Fascist

[jabster]

It doesn't get much more fascist than this: "nationalize early-education for children under five years"

Obama the totalitarian: Everything controlled by the State. Now he wants to federalize education.

Go ahead and nominate this guy, Democrats. Hand McCain a landslide victory in November.

-john

Re:Err. Can we mod summaries?

[NeverVotedBush]

Personally, I think all of the remaining candidates are losers. Hillary is an insider and will be just another Clinton. Obama is too radical and disruptive. And McCain will continue in the Bush warmongering tradition.

I don't hold out much hope for this country if these three are the best we can do.

Possibly more than at any other time, this election is about choosing the lesser evil rather than the most capable candidate.

Re:Iraq should be mentioned.

[tuxgeek]

It's a shame he's thinking of stripping NASA for money instead of just ending the war of aggression in Iraq.

I have to agree that the Iraq occupation should be stopped immediately and the money being wasted could be diverted to education of our youth. Very few of us are "privileged" to be a Bush or other lineage of inbreeding.

Many gifted minds do not have the wealth or funds to go on to higher education and as thus America is becoming an Orwellian sub-third world culture.

As I observed during my college engineering degree period, brilliant minds and the highly educated do not see the world and solutions to the world's ills as neo-conservative republicans do. You will only find the uneducated illiterate bubbas and cooters of the back-woods holding their guns overhead and declaring we need to invade the "Rag Heads" to protect our borders.

It's depressing when you realize that America is run by uneducated dimwits.

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[Profane MuthaFucka]

I doubt your child is as well educated as you say, since you're seemingly incapable of stating the situation in CA accurately. You can't lie to me and then expect me to believe something else you say.

FYI, The goal is to institute standards on home schooling, not to abolish it.