Obama under fire for gutting NASA's human flight program

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NASA is a product of a different age, namely, when the government didn't spend obscene amounts of money on education and health care.

Yeah we should do useless sh**t rather than educate our children and take care of our elderly! How do you sleep at night?

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NASA is a product of a different age, namely, when the government didn't spend obscene amounts of money on education and health care.

Yeah we should do useless sh**t rather than educate our children and take care of our elderly! How do you sleep at night?

High school graduation rates peaked in 1969 when barack obama was a child. Back when barack obama was a child and going to school, the education system didn't require the glut of teachers and massive spending it has today. The same is true of course of Medicare/caid spending and enrollments. He turned out fine.

I am in favor of larger class sizes and cutting back on the goodies in Medicare (but Medicaid doesn't have those goodies so no cuts there). But spending on education and healthcare is infinitely more important than spending on NASA.

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But spending on education and healthcare is infinitely more important than spending on NASA.

I wouldn't say infinitely, but the manned space program has done nothing of value in the past three decades that could not have been done at least as well and at less expense as unmanned missions.

There is only one space mission for which humans are needed for, colonization, and we aren't pursuing that.  At best we're doing a bit of space tourism.  If we want to be serious about space, we should make the following our mission:  Send married fertile couples to Mars and leave them there to found a colony.  No return flights are needed for the mission and they would raise the cost astronomically (no pun intended).

Yes, the manned programs are too costly since we have to get them back safely/ hold ourselves to a higher standard to ensure nothing goes wrong. Exploration by robots is better. If something goes wrong, then oh well. It doesn't become a tragedy.

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It's amusing when some cry at the top of their lungs to cut down the federal government but then are shocked when their favorites projects are on the table.

it amazing how you libs like to use strawman arguments....the clear truth is that we conservatives want to tear apart the state's nanny side that sucks and is in shambles, not the state's badassery side that rocks and displays America's exceptionalism.

Yes, medical care for the poor and the elderly sucks. So does educating our children. You're a genius.