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

Re:I call shenanigans

[Cookie3]

Source seems to be:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/-/HQpress/112007%20education%20plan%201.pdf
barackobama.com, of course, being the official Barack Obama website.
This link then redirects to the 3cdn hosting site, where the PDF is located.

Re:That's disappointing

[Falstius]

My hint for those keeping score at home is that quickly pulling out of Iraq would generate a lot more spare funds.

The Iraq war is paid for almost exclusively with special funding initiatives, it is not part of the budget. So ending the war won't suddenly free up trillions of dollars for other uses, it will just slow our descent into debt from the Demon Drop speed it is currently.