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Obama's Impending NASA Decisions
eldavojohn writes "From delaying Project Constellation to an additional $2 billion in funding, Space.com looks at some immediate decisions the President Elect will have to make once he takes office in January. The biggest one will be the shuttle plan: do we retire the shuttle fleet or keep it on for more missions? If it is retired, we would have to rely on another country to bring our astronauts into space between 2010 and 2015 as a new fleet is built. Will Obama hold true on his $2 billion pledge to NASA?"
US$ 2 billion is a tag, that's LESS than ONE day of war in Iraq and Afghanistan..... An easy choice, I'd say.
Stop spending money on invading other countries and blowing up brown people.
This happens all the time in the private sector -- you know, that part of the economy that actually creates value.
Enough with the state run crap. Take your plans for 5-10 years of white collar welfare and go fertilize a tree.
Taxes will definately NOT be shrinking under the Obamanation. He has already backpeddled on his taxing and tax increases, from a quarter million a year to somewhere in the lower 100 thousands.
Also, I read on Yahoo that he has stated some of his 'promises' made during his campaign pretty much won't be fulfilled.
Nothing like seeing a lawyer act like a lawyer. Everyone pretty much on /. HATES lawyers, but where willing to jump on the Obama bandwagon. WTF?
So, of course we won't get what Obama promised. He is nothing more than a lawyer. He is nothing more than a politician. New person in office. New change same as the old change, only this time, it's an african american putting the change in his pocket instead of an already rich white guy.
--Toll_Free
Why spend billions on something that stirs the pot in the majority of your constituency's belief-system when you can spend the same money killing people in far away countries and look like a hero?
Just layin' it out there...I guess flamebait-mods are incoming...
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Personally I think that President Obama should, immediately upon taking the oath of office, issue an executive order that immediately quadruples the budget to every government department from whatever it has now, and furthermore every department's budget will double during each year of his first term as president. This stopgap measure would take care of some immediate problems. Then, a committee can study the various departments and determine which departments need more money and how much more.