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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.'"
You do know that NASA has a record for decades of doing all they could to prevent the development of any private competitors, right?
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The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
It's a damn shame that there just isn't enough money for NASA right now, but blaming liberals for it is just asinine.
I have the Federal Budget right in front of me as I'm building an application that details the number of days the average citizen has to work to fund each and every 600 odd line items, including details of entitlements.
The fact is welfare has been a persistent and chronic drain on the federal budget now, for a generation. We've spend a trillion dollars a year to help urban centers and eradicate poverty, and what has it accomplished? I mean nothing.
You want funding for NASA? I'll tell you what, I got it for your right in these line items:
50 billion plus for food stamps
20 billion for school lunches
150 billion plus for unenemplyment
150 billion plus for SSI disability
And I haven't even started on Medicare or Social Security yet.
So, here's the deal, I'll cut 10 billion from food stamps, 5 billion from school lunches, 30 billion from disability, and 30 billion from unemployment, and in just one year I've got nearly the entire cost of the Constellation Program.
Entitlements aren't too blame.
I thought liberals knew how to add.
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There were lots of private companies trying to privately spend a small portion of US GDP for private research in order to get to space. And since we didn't need NASA for anything, it's amazing that the technology developed at NASA appeared worldwide in the same time frame without the subsidization of any other government.
Consider the history of flight
Indeed! The technology required to fly 200 feet and put a human on the moon are shockingly similar.
Ahhh, I'm just kidding. You know you're full of shit. And so do I.
In the meanwhile, we're spending $1 TRILLION a year on the military and two pointless wars. And Guantanamo is still right the way it was.
Hope and change, my ass.
Well. If you put in that context, allow me to post a famous quote by Abraham Lincoln. I hope you find it as enlightening as I do.
"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny."
Life is not for the lazy.
At least we have one conservative who's not afraid to say what's really motivating his opinion.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I've been saying for 10 years or more: America is over.
And saying it over and over, loudly, no doubt.
If by historically you mean before 1960's, yeah.
If you want to include the last 40 years, historically the racists have been conservative.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
Historically, Republicans don't know anything about history. Pretty good troll, though.
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Look at health care. There's no fix more obvious that the government, and only the government can do to improve the course of this country, yet it drives conservatives completely around the bend. Even when the final bill turns out to be more conservative, more free-market, with less government than anyone could have imagined 12 months ago, conservatives are still around the bend.
Government is the cause of the health care problem. Regulations that mandate services drive up the cost of coverage. Lawsuits drive up costs for everything. I love how everyone likes to tout how much the USA spends more on health insurance but by the same token what is never stated is that you effectively cannot sue for malpractice in countries with national health insurance.
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