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supersix2 · 06-27-2009, 06:13 AM

Ahh Barney Frank...great example of the short-sightedness and clearly an enemy of manned spaceflight. He was on the O'Reilly Factor (I can't stand the show anymore but one of my co-workers told me about the interview) the other day talking about Universal Healthcare and how to pay for it. Guess what one of his targets was...

Here's the excerpt from the show:

O'REILLY: ...a progressive state, has a health care deal, but the state has a $1.5 billion deficit, and the health care entitlement has been cut back, as you know. For a state of 6.5 million people, $1.5 billion deficit. I'm worried that this health care is going to send the United States into bankruptcy. California is there now. Massachusetts is in big trouble. And can you reassure me that universal health care isn't going to bankrupt the United States of America?

FRANK: Absolutely, because there are other areas we can cut. You know, they are still talking about sending human beings to Mars for hundreds of billions of dollars, literally hundreds of billions. I'm for space exploration with instrumentation.

The figure of 1 Trillion is what the healthcare plan would cost was quoted earlier in the interview.

Frank would love to take the meager ~15 billion per year that NASA gets for EVERYTHING, that's Shuttle, ISS, Mars Rovers, deep space probes, aeronautics research and development, and future Mars and Lunar Programs. I think all and all, the money being spent on manned spaceflight is about 60% of the total NASA budget, so roughly 8 billion per year. This "hundreds of billions of dollars" Frank is referring to is spread out over decades.

The problem is that Universal Healthcare is a hot topic for a lot of people this year, and NASA is...well not. So it's really easy to promote your agenda but cutting stuff people don't seem to care about. The greater cost of it all the a severe cut back in the US aerospace industry as a whole, and a lot of really smart people with a lot of education are out of the job.

Maybe their plan is for all those people to lose the healthcare benefits they get from already having a job, so they are now dependent upon the government with its new Universal Healthcare plan...

06-27-2009, 06:13 AM	#28 (permalink)
supersix2 Insane Location: Houston	Ahh Barney Frank...great example of the short-sightedness and clearly an enemy of manned spaceflight. He was on the O'Reilly Factor (I can't stand the show anymore but one of my co-workers told me about the interview) the other day talking about Universal Healthcare and how to pay for it. Guess what one of his targets was... Here's the excerpt from the show: O'REILLY: ...a progressive state, has a health care deal, but the state has a $1.5 billion deficit, and the health care entitlement has been cut back, as you know. For a state of 6.5 million people, $1.5 billion deficit. I'm worried that this health care is going to send the United States into bankruptcy. California is there now. Massachusetts is in big trouble. And can you reassure me that universal health care isn't going to bankrupt the United States of America? FRANK: Absolutely, because there are other areas we can cut. You know, they are still talking about sending human beings to Mars for hundreds of billions of dollars, literally hundreds of billions. I'm for space exploration with instrumentation. The figure of 1 Trillion is what the healthcare plan would cost was quoted earlier in the interview. Frank would love to take the meager ~15 billion per year that NASA gets for EVERYTHING, that's Shuttle, ISS, Mars Rovers, deep space probes, aeronautics research and development, and future Mars and Lunar Programs. I think all and all, the money being spent on manned spaceflight is about 60% of the total NASA budget, so roughly 8 billion per year. This "hundreds of billions of dollars" Frank is referring to is spread out over decades. The problem is that Universal Healthcare is a hot topic for a lot of people this year, and NASA is...well not. So it's really easy to promote your agenda but cutting stuff people don't seem to care about. The greater cost of it all the a severe cut back in the US aerospace industry as a whole, and a lot of really smart people with a lot of education are out of the job. Maybe their plan is for all those people to lose the healthcare benefits they get from already having a job, so they are now dependent upon the government with its new Universal Healthcare plan...