Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2014 to 2023 Office: Eliminate Human Space Exploration Programs

Space Ref - NASA Watch ^ | November 18, 2013

[Toddsterpatriot]

No taxation on anything made, grown in, or pulled out of the ground right here in America.

That's right, because raising the price of imports never raises the price of domestic production. LOL!

[TomasUSMC]

. Eliminating those human space programs would save $73 billion between 2015 and 2023, the Congressional Budget Office estimates.

....Hell, we print that much in less than one month AND THEY DON’T WANT TO SPEND IT OVER 8 YEARS? !!!!!

[TomasUSMC]

5 PERCENT ACROSS THE BOARD CUTS that’s .....a nickel out of each dollar.

[PA Engineer]

At 50 dollars per line of great computer code... we will spend 25 billion dollars to fix the Deathcare website. Kill obamacare and fund NASA.

Ditto, but terminate the bureaucratic culture that is stifling NASA first.

[Daveinyork]

If you don’t agree, then you don’t really want American to be a great industrial power.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I think we are on opposite sides, of America making things.

I want America to make things.

I am not sure what you want.

[hattend]

... the U.S. can not be number one in everything; that it is better for us when the playing field is leveled.

Wow. What a can't do attitude.

[Daveinyork]

You’re just like a liberal. You cannot wish things to happen. there is a pricetag, and that price tag is a much smaller, less intrusive government, and lower taxes, not more taxes.

I seriously doubt that you want that price to be paid, especially by you. Do you want the steel mill build next to your home? Or would you rather it be next door to someone else? Would you go to work in the blast furnace, or would you insist on running a nice, safe computer.

How about this: Quit bitching about American not making things, and start making them, yourself. Walk the talk.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I agree with you.

We need to encourage US manufacturing.

Start that, with a 10% tax on everything imported.

Across the board. Everything. No exceptions.

This will start to bring back American manufacturing, this will start to reverse the trend of the last generation, and it will also raise some money to pay for our 17 trillion (and rising) national debt.

Just saying.

China now has a lower unemployment rate than America does.

[Daveinyork]

So, by making the cost of living higher, and by giving the government more money to spend restricting our freedom, you’re going to create prosperity?

are you a government employee? Maybe a college economics student, or perhaps a union thug.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I just want us to start bringing jobs to America.

For an entire generation, we have exported American jobs.

Bring jobs back to America.

[hopespringseternal]

LOL. NASA will never do anything significant in space again. Every proposal will always span multiple administrations to ensure that it gets scrapped before they actually have to deliver anything.

Having said that, any budget proposal that doesn't end suicidal entitlement growth is a waste of paper. Any other attempt at savings is just going to go to feeding the beast for another five minutes.

[Daveinyork]

How many people do you employ in your business?

[colorado tanker]

Repeal Obamacare to cut the deficit, cut taxes permanently to stimulate growth, and mine asteroids for precious metals and rare earth metals.

So simple, isn't it? Why can't the liberal mind grasp that?

[SunkenCiv]

And why aren’t they the only ones? :’)