Re: Space funding (was Re: Hillary needs to quit)

Derek Lyons wrote:
> "Dano" <janeanddano@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Mac Breck wrote:
>>> Derek Lyons wrote:
>>>> ....what a vani****ngly small drop in the
>>>> bucket it amounts to.
>>>
>>> IIRC, the news story about Constellation had the NASA budget at 14
>>> cents per day for every person in the USA.  Seems like a drop in the
>>> bucket, to me.
>>
>> Really?  How many of those people are under 16...or over 65?  That's
>> that's about 50 bucks a year.  Not including the share of the
>> unfunded deficit spending that type of thought process leads to.
>> This is one area we actually *can* do without.  You have to start
>> somewhere in reining in the budget.  Seems like a pretty damn
>> reasonable place to me.
>
> So why isn't it reasonable to cut back on [Federal] education funding
> when it isn't demonstrably having any real effect?
>

I'll go for that if you can get the feds to stop wasting the money we
could 
use locally for funding schools at the local level.  Start with NASA. 
I'll 
take that extra 50 bucks per year per taxpayer for starters.  For my
family 
of 4 that's 200 bucks.  On just that program alone.

I really don't wish this to be one versus the other.  Reasonable people
can 
come to accomadation.  You however, are far from reasonable.  You show
*me* 
how NASA is more im****tant to our country than educating our youth!