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Originally Posted by hunnychile
It's all just a story of how great the USA "Used" to be. We can't afford all these missions when kids are hungry and unable to get a proper education. Plus, how about all the sick people who need SOME kind of Health Care in some fashion?
None of us need to see what the weather is like on Mars.
Amen.
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Riight, because the ~16 billion a year we spend on all of NASA would make a huuuge difference in the the budget allotted for welfare and health care. Get real, the budgets for those programs are several times larger than all of NASA and NASA deals with high tech and puts stuff in space. These other programs are failing the very people they are trying to help and the solution has always been "throw more money at it." Additionally, we can spend the money on getting kids a "proper education" and then have them do what with it? Surely not get into an advanced science or engineering field since we've all but stripped that away. It's thinking like that, that really annoys me. We want to get kids educated to get into high tech fields but after the education we stop putting a priority on it as a national objective. Instead you'll just end up with a bunch of highly educated people collecting early social security, unemployment, and welfare. Great idea.