[from occupied ga]

Welfare and Corporate subsidies - drop 'em off the cliff. That's my personal feel, and that's how I vote

Unless you're in Kongress, you don't get to vote on these. You are only allowed to vote for representative tweedledee (r) or tweedledum (d) whose actions on 99.9% of spending is indistinguishable.

Though I would say we have a common ground in understanding that not every federal program is worthy of funding, and such things should be opposed.

Kill 'em all (spending programs) and let God sort 'em out. Though the first to go should be the NEA rather than NASA.

Most of the reps don't even read the budget bills (or any other bills for that matter) that they vote for so you can't really claim that they represent your interests. Most of them are party hacks and vote the way the party leadership tells them to irrespective of the wishes of their constituents.

[Frank_Discussion]

If your reps are not representing you, PROTEST to THEM. Email them, Write a letter, Send a Fax, VOTE THEM OUT, RUN FOR OFFICE YOURSELF. Make the sidewinders follow the system as best you can.

MY Point is that NASA funding is an area where most reps show up for the vote and are pretty faithful to their constituent's majority view. Military spending trends similarly.

Certainly, complain about it if you want, but the issue of space exploration is represented with pretty high voter fidelity.