There is no market demand because your neighbors want to do something else with their money. Leave them alone!
Only government would be so dumb as to put the cart before the horse. The market will do this properly, and without squandering wealth in shovel fulls like the bureaucrats will.
Or even a war we could lose.
Well, with over a 1,000 nukes avaliable, what war would we lose that a moon base would win?
Yeah, I would pretty much have to say that those of us who would like a pre-Roosevelt, pre-income tax government are definitely an endangered species.
Don't expect me to turn into a commie just to get along.
We can't even get any traction on not adding a new entitlement, much less scaling back the existing ones to sane levels. In that environment I find it hard to begrudge NASA $15billion a year.
If you can't beat'em, join'em?
Should they be left alone when they don't want to pay for roads, nuclear missiles, or the Louisiana purchase? I have said that this is a national security issue, you may or may not agree with that, but apparently the president thinks that way.
Well, with over a 1,000 nukes avaliable, what war would we lose that a moon base would win?
Any one where we weren't willing to use those nukes. Nukes are a peculiar weapon, you don't use them to win wars, you use them to prevent nuclear wars.
Don't expect me to turn into a commie just to get along.
That sort of over-the-top rhetoric just torpedoes your own credibility. For the state to do something private enterprise has no interest in or ability to do does not make communism, otherwise you could label every nation with a defense budget communist.
Other than the national security necessities, I doubt space spending will bear much fruit until NASA is given leadership with a vision for encouraging private industry. But that encouragement will likely take the form of a moon base (or workable space station) for private enterprise to service.