[Frank_Discussion]

"It's like welfare recipients joking about their checks."

There ya go. It's all in perspective, and yours is way, way, skewed.

These are government employees working very hard to get paid a salary. They aren't being given welfare checks, and they have a vision for the country that goes beyond a serial welfare recipient.

[from occupied ga]

There ya go. It's all in perspective, and yours is way, way, skewed.

Just another form of welfare for PhDs and engineers. I think your perspective is skewed, but then I'm what would be considered a paleocon. I think that the space program ought to be privately funded from voluntary contributions, and if there weren't enough money for some stuff then it wouldn't get done. I guarantee that there would be a lot fewer failures if there were employment/funding consequences of those failures.