Bush Looking at 'Bold Agenda' Space Effort

Yahoo News ^ | 12/7/03 | Reuters - Washington

[Huck]

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[thepitts]

Just great, another way to spend billions to help re-election.

[demlosers]

Start to build a large space faring infratructure including the moon, then to Mars and beyond.

[Momaw Nadon]

[Tennessean4Bush]

NASA needs a mission or it needs to be scrapped. Are you in favor of scrapping the agency?

[Tired]

If not us then we might as well cede it to those commie heathen bastiches over in China. I say roll the bones baby and go for it. Hell if we are going broke lets do it with style.

[Momaw Nadon]

[zarf]

What are you a dinosaur? Better this than sex ed in schools.

We need national goals....what else besides taxes and skyscapers collapsing bind us together?

[ARCADIA]

Just great, another way to spend billions to help re-election.

No doubt, that is a part of it; but, in case you haven't noticed, the country is in trouble. The US is at risk of becoming a has been super power. Our industries are dying, our technological lead is gone, and our only job growth involves emptying bed pans.

If this can somehow reinvigorate our technological interests then by all means lets do it.

[Momaw Nadon]

[rmmcdaniell]

What are you a dinosaur? Better this than sex ed in schools.

What stupid comment. It would be one thing if Bush was slashing and burning wasteful government spending like sex ed. to fund the space mission. He isn't! He's too craven to do anything about the ubiquitous waste and now plans to add another bloated space program on top of everything else. It is amazing how many on this site are oblivious that Bush's real legacy will be the astronomically higher taxes that are going to have to implemented to pay for all of this.

[rmmcdaniell]

No doubt, that is a part of it; but, in case you haven't noticed, the country is in trouble. The US is at risk of becoming a has been super power. Our industries are dying, our technological lead is gone, and our only job growth involves emptying bed pans.

If this can somehow reinvigorate our technological interests then by all means lets do it.

You are a Socialist! We are at risk of becoming a has been superpower because of the enormous tax burden we all bear. If the goverment would get off our damn back, we would have all the reinvigoration we would need.

[ARCADIA]

Socialist?!?

Perhaps it is you who should ask your "capitalist" icons why they have decided to deliver 100% of our hard won technology to our communist/socialist enemies. The best way to reduce the tax burden is to boost the size of the underlying economy; as long as it continues to deteriorate the tax burden will continue to rise. Go take a chill pill and buy a clue.

[Willie Green]

Anouncing this bold new initiative, President George W. Jetson made the following statement:
"R&D in our NASA space program will spinoff many benefits for our future, hydrogen-based economy."

[Moonman62]

We need national goals....what else besides taxes and skyscapers collapsing bind us together?

Closing the borders to illegal immigration.

[alloysteel]

And what might we find if we return to the Moon?

If we dither around too long before we undertake this new exploration of space, it may very well be the Red Chinese.

But if we turn this proposed expansion back into space into a race, we could very well bankrupt the Chinese, much as we caused the Soviet Union to spend themselves into oblivion.

There are many ways to assert supremacy. Taking control of the highest hill around, by whatever means, generally establishes the the winner.

[The Westerner]

"Bush's real legacy will be the astronomically higher taxes that are going to have to implemented to pay for all of this."

Further driving us into socialist oblivion. With the coming retirement of the baby boomers, just who is going to fund the government's largesse?