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

"Dano" <janeanddano@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Derek Lyons wrote:
>> "Dano" <janeanddano@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> I know NASA's is "relatively" small.  I think you need to pull your
>>> head out of the stars for a second if you can't recognize the size,
>>> impact and cost of this war.  You're the big "science" guy...the
>>> math should not give you such a problem.  You could start by
>>> googling the federal deficit and it's increase during thse war
>>> years.  We are going very deeply into debt...much of it held by our
>>> good friends the Chinese.
>>
>> It's fascinating - you keep talking about NASA's budget, but whenever
>> anyone attempts to discuss NASA's budget... you promptly move the goal
>> posts and start talking about the war.  You resist mightily discussing
>> the precise topic you keep raising.
>>
>
>Nothing has moved.  What I'm talking about is an *item* in the overall 
>budget.  As I have said before, NASA is far from the only thing I would
cut. 
>The point is, if the war weren't sucking up half of the overall 
>budget...only a ****tion of which we are paying for with actual tax 
>dollars...THEN we could afford to fund NASA and many other worthy items.
>
>Get it? 

Yeah, I get it.  You have an axe to grind, but you are not only unsure
where you left the axe...  you seem to have lost track of your
grindstone too.

D.
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