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Originally posted by cnor
you mean go to the moon for the first time?.....yea, I'd like to see that.
(yes, I'm one of THOSE people)
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For some reason, I'm with cnor on this one. I do, however, think that this is a great idea. Spending more money? So? Are we ever even going to starting paying off the debt? Doubt it. "The National Debt" just seems like another farce to me anyway. We owe most of that money to ourselves anyway, but let's not dicuss that. And so what if we do borrow another trillion dollars from ourselves?
On a side note, even though as a rule of thumb I automatically disagree with anything that comes out of Bush's mouth, I am going to have to say that we need this "rejuvenation" of the space program. I'm pretty sure that Mars can't be colonized (at least not by humans) and that it is going to take us $1 trillion to find this out the really really hard way, but I would compare that to a kid trying to learn how to ride a bike. In my case, the cost of learning to ride a bike when I was a kid was several cuts and bruises and endless frustration. But you learn, eventually, no matter how hard it is. I can only see this as a step forward, not backward, even though the price will be pretty darn high.