Yeah, ‘anything’ certainly doesn’t include military. I’m a fiscal conservative, but I can also read. I can read that NASA’s budget even with a moon program is 1/10th the stimulus and would actually produce results.
Yeah, ‘anything’ certainly doesn’t include military.
Well, I have seen FReeper posts back during the last administration about the military spending for Iraq and Afghanistan and that we should be outta there and not waste our money on the ragheads, because they'll never be anything more than ragheads ... :-)
I don't think they're talking about eliminating the military, but they were sure talking about eliminating all the expenses that have to do with Iraq and Afghanistan.
As for me, I supported going in there and overthrowing Hussein and driving out the Taliban -- but I was not for letting Islam continue in a newly formed government that just allowed Islam to take over once again, with a new set of Islamic terrorists so that they can do the same thing all over again, in another few years.
I would have been for eliminating Islam as a dominant religion and for eliminating it totally from the government -- not allowing any part of Sharia law to take hold at all, anywhere.
However, it looks like we will have spent all this money over in Iraq and Afghanistan and we'll give away the huge mineral find in Afghanistan along with all the oil we decided not to control over in Iraq ... letting other countries step in and take control over oil production and development there. That should have been off-limits to everyone except American companies and for American interests.
It would have been better to have gone in there, bombed them into the stone age -- and left them in the stone age -- and then left ... that would have made a better point ... and cost a whole lot less.
BUT, we are talking about the NASA program, and I would much rather spend it on going to the moon, setting up some infrastructure for the U.S. and then going to Mars. That's a lot better money spent than on the ragheads.