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"Learn about LaGrange points instead, MinMan, and see the future."

Thanks. I know about LaGrange points. My position is that we should not be in the business of spending tax dollars on space exploration (not exploitation) until we've figured out how to stop wasting tax dollars on the other useless nonsense we spend them on.

Get rid of the useless expenditures and then I'll be 100% behind the space program, as I was in the early days. This little nit-picky program Bush is proposing will accomplish little.

Instead, how about we get rid of the DOE, NEA, and a few other alphabet organizations, then take about 25% of the savings and do a _real_ space program?

Until we do that, I oppose these niggling little feel-good expenditures with lofty goals that cannot be met with the money available.

Let's straighten out our economic mess, put the Federal goverment out of a lot of the areas it's spending so much money in, and then budget for a genuine space program.

Until then, Mars rovers are just fine.