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

Damien Valentine <valends3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>So let me see if I understand the conversation so far.
>
>PV: Even if an Obama administration cuts Constellation, it won't
>necessarily be the end of NASA.
>Dano: But it should be, because we can't afford to pay for guns and
>butter.  (Or "rockets and textbooks".)
>Rhino, Derek Lyons, etc.: Yes, we can.  Even a NASA with all kinds of
>bells and whistles would come cheap, compared to the mind-boggling
>amounts spent routinely by the federal government for butter and
>textbooks.  (Never mind guns.)  Meanwhile, funneling the relatively
>small NASA budget into some other department would have virtually no
>effect.
>Dano (snip a lot of irrelevant ranting about Massachusetts and
>Iraq): ...You're wrong.
>
>Have I got this right?

Spot on.

D.
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