Obama: 8 Billion For High-Speed Rail, 0 for NASA & JSC

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I love how Mr. Meowgi Face is against fiscal irresponsibility, symbolic spending on pet projects, and government enterprises until it comes to his own, sweetheart deals.

Like most teabaggers, its not about what is being spent, but rather who is spending it, and to a lesser extent, what it is being spent on, no cred, no integrity, no scruples.

 

We're so Independent and 'Murican you celebrate the San Jacinto Monument and the Alamo, located in San Antonio. Care to guess what language those are?

 

Nah. I'll stick with your route of "any criticism of anything Houston related is an attack on the Rockets." That's what sober responsible adults base their decisions on anyway.

 

Crap! My apologies. Was not intentional, I messed the quote up. I don't see a place to edit my post. I appreciate you actually wanting to discuss the situation though.

I don't either, honestly. I said in my own posts that I have plenty of criticism of my own.

I ask that you re-read this one line that people are running off with - "absolutely zero pride in Houston and\or JSC". There is a difference between criticism and having zero pride in the history that has been made here in the past and the present.

The other ~99% of my post was about the situation at hand. You really got that out of just that one line? That I am defensive of any and all JSC criticism?

I don't think anyone is doing just exactly that, at least I'm not. You are substituting "zero pride, past and present" etc. with "criticism". The word criticism is being used real loosely here.

No one is asking you to love NASA. I also never said or inferred you have love NASA in order to love Houston. It is just in my view it has given Houston well deserved world-wide recognition, it is tradition here, and that it still benefits the city today.

When other people say or act like it is more of a disgrace or shameful...THAT is what gets to me. And I (sometimes) will debate about it.

 

Where is Obama axing NASA?

 

White House budget director Peter Orszag is defending the Obama administration's proposal to cancel NASA's program to return astronauts to the moon.

"We made tough choices," he said in a conference call with reporters.

But Orszag said that the end of the Constellation program would not mean the end of human space ventures. He said that the administration's plan to increase funding for long-term research and development at NASA could be "a significant step" toward eventual human space flight to Mars.

White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said previously published reports that the administration was delaying the moon mission were incorrect.

"We are proposing canceling the program, not delaying it," he said.

Pfeiffer said the administration was prepared for opposition from lawmakers and lobbyists to the cuts it announced this morning. He said the president did not shy away from proposed reductions "just because they have a powerful constituency on the Hill or K Street."

The congressional delegations from Texas, Florida and Alabama &# all states with major NASA presences — already are organizing to bury Obama's NASA budget proposal.

"We don't expect this to be easy," Pfeiffer acknowledged.

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There's nothing on the moon that will help us right now, I believe we should be worried about more issues here at home on the Earth for starters.

 

no, it's the scale of spending, wich is lightyears beyond anything W ever contemplated.

 

By "lightyears beyond" do you mean "a small fraction of"?

 

Shovel, in case you missed it on page8:

Please answer. Seeing a Ron Paul touting libertarian (who only a few days ago started a thread on Paul's SOTU, and numerous stimulus waste threads) crying for more spending for NASA... is like watching Michael Scott in The Office. I cringe at watching because I feel so embarrassed for the character, but I can't help watching because it's too funny.

 

^ Glad that that golden goose is being killed and $$$ is being directed to more scientifically and economically valuable ends.

Good riddance.

 

I'd rather pay for a road sign than to pay you to inter-douche it up all day long.

I might be remembering wrong, but IIRC as Meowgi,you used to be kind of funny, now you're just kind of angry and generally, your posts deliver about as much value per cost as the Space Shuttle. Would it kill you to at least be funny? I mean this latest iteration of yours is pushing 1000 largely humor-free posts. Blah.

 

So because spending is a problem we should be getting upset that more money isn't being spent on NASA?

 

i don't believe i've addressed the nasa issue in this thread.