[hedgetrimmer]

This sounds suspiciously like those pro-government whines

The United States of America achieved the apex of human endeavor by putting an American citizen on the moon.

It was the culmination of efforts by Americans funded by Americans. Since WE made that investment as a people and a nation, we have a right to preserve it. When the globalist trash in our government take that away from us, they are stealing from us as any thief breaking into your garage and taking the car you just finished paying for.

The concept of American liberty is fertilized by a desire to be continuously advancing to new frontiers. By killing the national space program, it is nailing the coffin on the unity of purpose the American people need to understand and pursue the liberty of the frontier.

I can imagine a rotten globalist making your arguments--the money that the American people are taxed for the government must go to support the global cartels and trashnational corporations,and not to advance the American people, nor to preserve the freedom of the American people. It must be redistributed to the Russians, Indians and Chinese , as these countries have been anointed by the globalist trash for their large populations and slave labor controlled by their communist socialist governments.

[Lou L]

Your huge leaps in logic are astounding.

Whatever unity we once had as a nation vis-a-vis the space program and subsequent moon landing are long past. We were pioneers, and in under the guise of science, other nations benefitted. Yes, like many other things including advanced medicine and healthcare, they did it on the backs of the US taxpayer.

That's beside my point. What I was trying to say is that we must re-consider EVERY expenditure our country currently makes because we are out of money. There can't be any sacred cows, including (what I would consider a very successful) space programs such as NASA.