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

Derek Lyons wrote:
> "Dano" <janeanddano@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> In other words, when confronted with something you don't want to think
> about...  again you move the goal posts.
>

Oh please.  Enough with the goal posts.  Try a new analogy...that one is 
quite lame and irrelevant.

>> I really don't wish this to be one versus the other.
>
> Then why do you keep framing it in those terms?
>

Because it's all inter-related...whether you wish to accept that or not. 
No 
point in continuing with this.  You refuse to look at this rationally,
since 
visiting Mars seems of such over-riding im****tance, so I will simply drop 
this and vote my conscience.  You vote yours.  Go ahead...take the last 
word.