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

Dano 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.

Not to me.  I wouldn't begrudge NASA that paltry amount.  In fact, I'm
ashamed it's not more.

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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