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

Mac Breck wrote:
> Dano wrote:
>> Mac Breck wrote:
>>> Dano wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It all adds up.  You have to start somewhere.
>>>
>>> Yes, but you don't *START* with a relatively small budget like
>>> NASA's. They (politicians like Obama) go there because NASA looks
>>> like an easy target, *BECAUSE* there are soooo many people who think
>>> solely short term and close to home.
>>>
>>
>> Relative to *what*?
>
> The military, definitely.  Education, probably.
>
>
>>>> And I'm certainly *not*
>>>> suggesting we *only* cut the funding of NASA.  I'm not even
>>>> proposing...nor is Obama that we disband the entire program...just
>>>> delay this specific, very expensive one.
>>>
>>> Hasn't NASA had its budget cut in the past, probably several times?
>>>
>>
>> I honestly don't know.  This seems to be *your* binky.  You tell me.
>
> I wasn't asking just you, but the group.  I was hoping somebody else
> here would know.
>
>
>>>> We ARE fighting a war you
>>>> know.  In case you missed every daily paper for several freaking
>>>> years!  End *that* first and let's talk.
>>>
>>> That's a bit of a strawman.  It's not an either/or situation.
>>> NASA's funding is not dependant upon the ending of the war.  The
>>> NASA budget and the war don't make up the entire budget.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> There you go again, going off of the topic, practicing diversions.
>
>

See that is the fundemental difference between us.  To me. NASA is the 
diversion.  It is not an over-riding concern that we can't live without. 
It's that damn simple.  Go ahead now toss some more verbal hand grenades. 
Demean and attempt to denigrate my point of view as that of someone who 
can't possibly understand your grandiose ventures to the planets.  I
prefer 
to remain grounded and concern myself with the many problems we have to
deal 
with everyday on terra firma.

Sorry if that diverts your attention.