Re: Hillary needs to quit

Mark Nobles wrote:
> Dano <janeanddano@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Mark Nobles wrote:
>>> Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> And he can't gut enough out of NASA to pay for his education
>>>> program anyway.
>>>>
>>> NASA budget:         $17.3 billion (FY 2008) [1]
>>> Education budget: $584   billion (FY 2007) (est., all levels
>>> combined) [2]
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. <http://www.nasa.gov/news/budget/FY2008.html>
>>>
2.<http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget08/summary/edlite-secti
>>> on1.html>
>>
>> The Mars plan is estimated to be around 100 billion.
>>
>> The education initiative Obama is proposing is 18 billion.  You do
>> the math.
>>
>> http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/obamas_nasa_plan_gets_little_p.php
>>
> I did the math. It's right here in this very post. His proposal adds a
> negligible amount to what is already  being spent on education, and
> there isn't that much in the NASA budget even if you take it all. What
> kind of voodoo arithmetic allows you to subtract 100 from 17 and get
> anything but more deficit?

I hope there are no astronauts counting on your math skills brother.  I'd 
like to see how you crunch numbers in order to pull 100 billion dollars
out 
of 17.3 billion (NASA budget...your numbers).