[FReepaholic]

...NASA has become an ineffective, politics dominated government agency. Funding them is throwing good money after bad....

Take a look at all the departments with a larger budget than NASA and you can say the same about them. So why don't we unfund them too?

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US receipt and expenditure estimates for fiscal year 2010.

• $72.5 billion (+2.8%) - Department of Transportation
• $52.5 billion (+10.3%) - Department of Veterans Affairs
• $51.7 billion (+40.9%) - Department of State and Other International Programs
• $47.5 billion (+18.5%) - Department of Housing and Urban Development
• $46.7 billion (+12.8%) - Department of Education
• $42.7 billion (+1.2%) - Department of Homeland Security
• $26.3 billion (-0.4%) - Department of Energy
• $26.0 billion (+8.8%) - Department of Agriculture
• $23.9 billion (-6.3%) - Department of Justice
• $18.7 billion (+5.1%) - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

[Prokopton]

Take a look at all the departments with a larger budget than NASA and you can say the same about them. So why don't we unfund them too?

True, and NASA has actually done things, sometimes great things.

Who was ever educated by the Department of Education?

How much food was produced by the Department of Agriculture?

How much energy has been generated by the Department of Energy?

I would rather spend money on a department that advances science and technology than giant bureaucracies that advance nothing but the careers of bureaucrats.