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Another somber reflectionL: If able people got off their asses and got a job, I wouldn't have to support them through tax deductions. I hate Welfare. GET A JOB AND QUIT HAVING BABIES I CAN'T AFFORD TO FEED!
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I always liked that Dilbert cartoon where Dogbert decided to make people take a test and get a license before they could have a baby. When the people failed he told them they'd "have to leave some body parts at the door". *LOL*
------------------ "We both said 'I really love you.' The Shriners loaned us cars. We raced up and down the sidewalk twenty thousand million times." -They Might Be Giants, "She's an Angel"
We ALREADY spend more $ on Welfare than we do on Space Exploration, by like a factor of TWENTY!
In fact, if you break down the US budget, (and I'm sure I did this in an old thread) about 1/4 goes to paying off the interest on the debt, a little under 1/4 to defense, another 1/4 to social security, and most of the last 1/4 goes to other social programs, education, agriculture, etc.
NASA's Budget is around 1/2 of 1 percent.. on a GOOD year.
we're already pouring money down the sinkhole that is "social programs," and we NEVER get anything back for it. On the other hand, conservative estimates show that we get $3-6 back for every $1 we spend on NASA R&D programs.
Skylab gave us smoke detectors. Viking gave us a treatment for juvenile diabetes. The Shuttle's given us a scanner that can classify tumors 1000 times faster than the old methods. And there's about TEN THOUSAND other humanity-benefiting things that have come out of tech developed for the space program, from shatterproof windshields to better A/C to impact resistant bike helmets, to better MRE's.
What these shortsighted people who say "take money from space program, save the slums" don't realize is that it doesn't friggin' WORK that way!
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Saiyanman Benjita
...in 2012. This time, why not the worst?
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I completely agree with the budget remark. If we had spent more money on these humanity-benefitting programs, rather than supporting wars we don't fight and people who have babies just to get more money from the government, we would probably be living on Mars right now.
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Sometimes you don't even have to look for the right words. Sometimes you stumble across them even before you begin to look. I found this quote-of-the-day at http://www.herdthinners.com/ .
<Quote> Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation."
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Sarcastic insight and commentary at its very best.
------------------ Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know. ~Groucho Marx, "Animal Crackers"
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the half I was refering to, and although it may be dangerous to my health to speak for RW, we were refering to half, or in his case all, of the money spent on war, I was thinking of Veitnam. One of JFK's people was on C-span this weekend, something recorded before Jr died, so he wasn't mentioned. John Kenneth Galbrieth said he believed JFK would have found a way out of Nam given time. I have always read that JFK increased numbers of american adviseres there, but was looking for a way out at the same time. Given all that we know now about his presidency, I tend to believe it.
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