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Romney-Ryan Release Space Policy Paper
RocketAcademy writes "The Romney-Ryan campaign has released a white paper on space policy, which observers find to be long on criticisms of the Obama Administration but short on specific recommendations. The policy promises 'a robust role for commercial space,' but it's clearly a supporting role: 'NASA will set the goals and lead the way in human space exploration.' When it comes to space, both parties put government ahead of private enterprise. Some see a parallel with the policies which are driving space companies out of California. Newt Gingrich, one of the few politicians who thinks seriously about space, says the policy is a step in the right direction but not enough."
This is what AC is referencing. 7th paragraph down.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-beverly-hills-fundraiser-20120922,0,2317962.story
“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.”
Sadly, this isn't an Onion article.
January 27, 2012 Republican debate:
“I spent 25 years in business. If I had a business executive come to me and say they wanted to spend a few hundred billion dollars to put a colony on the moon, I’d say, ‘You’re fired!’” -Mitt Romney
Calling for anything other than a minimal to nonexistent manned space program is hypocrisy for Mitt Romney.
Sheesh! Where to begin?
Let's just say this: The people in Libya are in no way happy that these Americans were killed. Indeed, if you have been getting your news from anyone besides Fox news, you would know that the Libyan people are right now finding and taking care of the Islamic militants who did this terrorist attack.
Obama, instead of being a jackass and sending a bunch of US troops to Libya -- and, face it, that's what the idiots watching Fox news want -- saved the US taxpayers a lot of money by being friendly and diplomatic with the Libyan people. As a result, the Libyan people felt really bad about the Americans killed and took care of it themselves without us needing to send in our troops.
At least they are still alive, and not lying face down in a gutter. And of course those inadequate facilities are probably still costing taxpayers about 10x what providing basic insurance would...
Always amazing the stupid decisions people (politicians and voters) will make with emotion or spite over reason. Reminds me of the CA death penalty. 13 people have been executed since it was reinstated in 1978, at a cost of about $4B. And the process takes so long that over *80* death row inmates have died of other causes. So $200M a year has been wasted just to wait around for 90% of the inmates to die on their own, same as in life without parole.
It's cheaper to give life without parole, since the death sentence has an automatic appeals process that goes up to the Supreme Court, costing over $3,000,000.
I didn't know Paul Ryan was a Democrat. Sorry when he spoke at the Republican national convention, I thought he was a Republican. I mistook him for the same Senator Paul Ryan that criticized the President for not ramming the budget through Congress, the same budget that Republicans like Paul Ryan actively tried to defeat. There must be like six Paul Ryans in Congress these days.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
He obviously meant to say 47 states and it was even corrected later in that same speech. On the other hand, Romney actually thinks that Airplanes should have power windows.
In my opinion, Obama has been a pretty bad President, but he's clearly a very smart person; especially when compared to the popular Republican candidates.
Obama corrected himself and said that he had "visited 47 states" about 20 seconds after the end of that video.
"But in any case, he's right: there are a huge group of Americans who simply pay no income taxes and instead live off government support. They will support Obama regardless of what Romney says because they want to continue leeching off the rest of society."
So that's why the preponderance of people who don't pay income tax live in states that vote for Democrats! Obviously, right?
Well,
http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-47-percent-no-income-tax-map-red-republican-states-2012-9
not exactly.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!