A couple years older and deeper in debt...
NASA is now headed to the moon, we're told, on its 17 billion dollar a year budget. I know it sounds like a lot of money to spend on our push to the stars, unless you stop and consider that we've probably already spent half a trillion in Iraq. If we'd had someone in the White House with a little more vision and a few less friends in the subcontracting business, we'd probably be mining fuel from the asteroid belt at this point as we set off for Alpha Centauri. Of course, it is a lot more manly to spend our dollars on weapons for shooting sprees in a country most Americans couldn't find on a map.
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I work for a social services agency, and hearing that the government wants to build a moonbase just makes me sad. I didn't even get a COLA raise this year!
I've got good news. We'll call off the second half of the Iraq war and buy a 4 or 5 Colas for every man, woman, and child in the world (30 cents into half a trillion...) Oh, you meant the other type of cola...
That's what happens when this country is ran by greed and stubborness!
Matt
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