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[Unless there is some tangible point to Newt's moonbase project, it doesn't make any more sense to me than any spendthrift racking up gobs of debt on his credit cards buying pointless stuff just for the thrill of spending. I guess the one difference is that, like with all government projects, they get to have fun spending other people's money instead of their own.]

I listened to the speech Newt gave on this issue. He is not proposing some new big spending project. In fact he spent a good part of the speech pointing out that Government does not handle development of technology as well as the private sector.

Using examples such as the Wright Brothers. He said to take a small part of the Budget for some prizes to let the American people/enterprise develop the technology that would be necessary, and also a way to keep our technology ahead of China/Russia.

When Kennedy announced goal of going to the moon. People all over the USA had the same reaction I am hearing today. How stupid. What a waste of money. Yet from a national security stand point, it would have been disastrous to have done otherwise.