[ScottinVA]

Once upon a time, we were admired as Can-Do America; now we can't even manage to keep on the lights.

We can't even control our borders or defend our embassies. America not the country of Reagan anymore... the lights on the "city on a hill" have gone out. But remember... elections have consequences. By reelecting Obama, the voters chose and embraced a weak America... and they got it.

[PGR88]

Do you want to predict where America is headed?

Study Argentina and Bolivia - their politics, their economics and their society. Socialist fantasies will destroy us exactly as it did them.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

More money for SSI disability and other transfer payments.

[Alex Murphy]

The other day, I learned that President Obama has canceled our Mars Rover explorations, along with all other planetary missions. NASA's science mission chief just quit in disgust, and who can blame him? Apparently, even robots' lives are too precious for us to risk these days, so America is giving up the thrill of discovering space.

The robots can always find work as killer drones here in America.

[ScottinVA]

Wistful remembrance of the last great President this country ever had. I feel blessed to have been in the prime of my life during his era. Seems like eons ago...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Look no further than the color of the skin of the people who work at NASA.

That's all you need to know to understand any Ubama policy.

[Paine in the Neck]

See tag line. It’s all you ever need to know about socialism.

[I want the USA back]

That’s exactly why 0 canceled the space program and is destroying our nuclear capabilities. Because he HATES the country and wants to destroy it.

America hasn’t given up. The president elected by millions with their head up their a$$ gave up.

[pallis]

Obama is lowering America down to his level, and he will go as low as necessary.

[from occupied ga]

America is giving up the thrill of discovering space.

I think the loss of Twinkies is a lot more important. The thrill of seeing my tax dollars support a bunch of nerds who can't or don't want to get a job in the real world has worn kind of thin.

The space program has repeatedly shown at great expense that Mars consists of rocks and dirt. In fact anyone familiar with the periodic table could have predicted that. Distance from the earth does not change how the elements join to each other. In fact I'll go so far as to say any extrasolar planets thousands of light years away will also consist of rocks and dirt.