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House Representatives Working On NASA Reform Bill
MarkWhittington writes with good and bad news about NASA's future budgets. From the article: "Rep. John Culberson, along with Rep. Frank Wolf, are developing a bill that will attempt to rationalize NASA's budget process and provide some long term continuity in its administration. First, a NASA administrator would be named to a ten year term. The intent is to provide some continuity in the way the space agency is run and to remove it, as much as possible, from the vagaries of politics. Second, NASA funding would be placed on a multi-year rather than annual cycle. This is of particular importance to the space agency because the majority of its high level projects take several years to run their course. If funding were fixed for a number of years, the theory goes, money could be spent more efficiently. NASA planners would know how much they have to spend four or so years going forward and would not have to worry about being cut off at the knees by Congressional appropriators year after year."
But is it more than political grandstanding in an election year? There might be a few problems: NASA could get stuck with a bad administrator, multi-year budgets might be a bit unconstitutional, etc.
..that NASA could get stuck wirg low levels of appropriations for years at a time. Sigh.
So ship all the niggers (ALL OF EM) back to Africa. Take all that money we were spending on law enforcement, courts, incarceration, executions, EBT, Planned Parenthood, community outreach, sensitivity training (brainwashing), diversity posters, and the like, and use that to fund NASA. In a couple of years we'll have McDonalds and Walmarts on Mars!
It's such a great idea I can't believe we haven't already done it.