Obama's Space Plan — a Conservative Argument

MarkWhittington writes "The Obama space proposal, which seeks to enable a commercial space industry for transportation to and from low Earth orbit while it cancels space exploration beyond LEO, has sparked a kind of civil war among conservatives. Some conservatives hate the proposal because of the retreat from the high frontier and even go so far as to cast doubt on the commercial space aspects. Other conservatives like the commercial space part of the Obama policy and tend to gloss over the cancellation of space exploration or even denigrate the Constellation program as 'unworkable' or 'unsustainable.'"

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There is only one argument.

[MyFirstNameIsPaul]

The constitution does not allow Congress to fund NASA. This is not a conservative for liberal opinion; it is a statement of fact.

Re:Space exploration is conservative.

[coaxial]

The ironic end game though is that you'll see southern states waiving environmental, wage, and other regulations to get aerospace jobs, while the liberal north languishes, as usual, and so, when the south does "rise again", the Confederate Army will be in the position of having the spaceships while the North will be cut off and begging for some foreign powers to help it.

That's why the South and their conservative Republican anti-government politicians, get $1.50 to $2.00 back from the federal government for every tax dollar collected.

We have a word for this in the North, it's "welfare." Your state would fall apart without us, and our "big government."

On behalf of all of us Northerns:

You're welcome.