If a country $15 trillion in debt can’t reach for the stars, then who can?
Cute line, so if that was your intent you succeeded...congrats.
This is a national security issue as well as a humankind exploration issue.
I suggest to you that we must do something about the debt. Stop throwing money down rat holes, such as with Solyndra and other wasteful scandals. Reform entitlements, etc.
Grow the economy, especially through domestic energy production and good paying jobs.
All that is a given.
Then, spend some of the real tax revenues on Space.
The point of this article is that Santorum ridicules REAGAN on Space, while his target was Newt.