The President's Space Initiative Speech

This thread is incredibly funny.

We got the Dems worrying about the deficit and saying that a big government
program is bad.

We got the Republicans saying that the deficit is not so bad and that big
government is the answer to space travel.

Next thing you know Senator Boxer will want to put handguns on airliners and
the Bush administration will oppose it. Oh, wait........

Well then, next thing you know Dean and Gephardt will say a little drug use
is not so bad, maybe even a badge of honor. Oh, too late for that one,
too.......

Maybe what we will get is Republicans saying that a senator's sexual
activity is nobody's business but his own. Oh, hell, I give
up................................

"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...
This thread is incredibly funny.

We got the Dems worrying about the deficit and saying that a big government
program is bad.

We got the Republicans saying that the deficit is not so bad and that big
government is the answer to space travel.

OK, let me throw in a third alternative - chuck the government altogether,
and let Burt Rutan come up with a way to do it backed by private investors
and some corporate sponsorship logos on the side of the spacecraft!

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(ajohnson) writes:


OK, let me throw in a third alternative - chuck the government altogether,
and let Burt Rutan come up with a way to do it backed by private investors
and some corporate sponsorship logos on the side of the spacecraft!




That appeals to my libertarian heart, but history has shown that commerce
follows the military, which follows the explorers, which follow the
prospectors.

The problem is that even if the moon were made of diamonds, it would not be
practical for the prospectors to go there to get them.

Don

--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG

http://tinyurl.com/22zpp

"What the plan lacks in momentum and flash, however, it makes up in
political shrewdness, and analysts said that, unlike previous attempts
to get the space program off the dime, it might even survive the
congressional gantlet."

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/space/2354537

WASHINGTON -- Eugene Cernan, the last man on the moon, said Wednesday
he's more than ready to give up the title.

"I want somebody dearly to take that dubious honor ... off my
shoulder," he said after President Bush announced plans to send
astronauts back to the moon and eventually to Mars.

"There's some young kid, some young boy or girl out there," Cernan
said in the hallway at NASA headquarters after Bush's speech. "God
bless their soul. Give them the courage, give them the opportunity. Go
for it."