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.
Roads are funded through tolls and gasoline taxes (although that might not be the best way), they can certainly be viewed as user fees.
Nuclear missiles are military implements, that the Constitution authorizes the government to appropriate and expend money on.
Is GWB calling for a Moon colony in order to claim the moon for the U.S. as sovereign territory? If he were to actually do that, my opinion might change, because it would at least guarantee some semblance of property rights to it, but to date I've heard nothing like that. Have you?
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.
So we didn't use them to beat the Japanese? That's an interesting view of history.
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.
That was in response to your 'economic stimulus' arguments. Don't drop context and you want fall into these errors of understanding.