Senators Demand NASA Continue Spending On Ares

FleaPlus writes "Senators Richard Shelby (R-AL and ranking member of the appropriations subcommittee handling NASA funding) and Robert Bennett (R-UT) have added an amendment onto an emergency spending bill for military operations in Afghanistan, reiterating that NASA must continue spending its funds on the Constellation program, particularly the medium-lift Ares I rocket. Alabama and Utah have strong ties to Ares/Constellation contractors, and both senators are opposed to the new direction for NASA, with Shelby describing it as a 'death march' for US spaceflight and criticizing the emphasis on commercial rockets."

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it doesn't matter

[slick7]

The whole line of discussion on this topic is pointless.
It's business as usual, politics as usual. The government has not changed, the oil companies are pointing their fingers at everyone but themselves. The checks and balances are not checking nor are they balancing, all the while the oil spill/leak is continuing to grow and spread in the Gulf of Mexico. Maybe when the spill overflows the gulf and into the Atlantic Ocean will you assholes get it.
How does anyone know if the continuing release of oil from under the Earth's crust is related to the ever increasing seismic activity.
Like anyone else, I enjoy waking up to apple pancakes however, you sheople are about to wake up to a baseball bat upside your collective heads!

Re:Your country is too big

[OrwellianLurker]

Now, I imagine that this is not the case when a country is the size of a continent. (which is pretty much what EU is turning into) If I lived in the USA, I would probably want to vote for a party that... Hmm. I am a liberal leftist and could never vote a party like the republicans, yet I would want a lot less involvement from the federal government and... Damn. I've never truly realized how fucked up the two party system is. I might just not vote.

That's exactly it-- our Federal government was never intended to be as large as it is now, or do as many things as it does now. Our de facto form of government we have now is not sustainable.