Maybe the righties can cough up the billions cut from the moon program. Or, like elsquid, do they think it's free?

Florida could lose 7000 useless overpaid civil service jobs (just quoting the teabaggers here).
Wonder if RubiNO will have the balls to support this spending cut during a time of record deficits...

Let's just hope that solving the BCS problem doesn't take billions, although I'm sure that there are some who are now making millions off of the status quo ;-)

OCU

#1 | Posted by northguy3 at 2010-02-01 03:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

By cutting the $766 million on BS climate research the moon program could move along - there problem solved NG.

Free? You have me confused with libtards. Conservatives know the cost of programs - and their benefits vs cost. Most liberal programs fail a bvc analysis - well to be fair, most government programs fail. Going to the Moon has residual benefits - more so than the midnight basketball programs or the NEA programs resulting in jars of piss with a cross in them.

While I am the biggest fan of NASA and our space program in general and was initially concerned with the news of 'cutting the moon program', after actually reading what is being proposed it does make a lot of sense.

The Aeries rocket programs they are discontinuing were retreads of 1960's technology, grossly over priced but guaranteed to make billions for aerospace industry on cost-plus contracts.

The new plan calls for money to be spent researching and developing NEW technology before committing to huge hardware purchases. This will mean better, safer, cheaper hardware in the long run and makes a lot more sense than the knee-jerk announcement by Bush after the Columbia tragedy "What that Kennedy feller said!!". After all, Bush never planned on paying for any of it, he maxed out another of our credit cards and left the next guy to pay for it.

Make up your collective pea brains... one day the wing dings are all about cancelling "wasteful" NASA and now they are bitching about cancelling NASA.

You guys really have an identity crisis or is it an Obama complex?

Actually Obama's proposal does NOT reduce NASA's budget. In fact, it's going up, just LESS than what they had asked for.

OCU

In fact, it's going up, just LESS than what they had asked for.

#6 | Posted by oldCADuser

See there you have it. This is standard business thinking. If you project an income of 100, and you only get 80, that means you had a loss of 20.

Does any of the wingnuts acknowledge that this is a gov't program? I agree with ElKid, Nasa is one of the few gov't programs that has actually done anything meaningful and at the same time had a substantial return on investment.

Conservatives know the cost of programs - and their benefits vs cost.

Squid-finished that c/b analysis on Operation Iraq Liberation yet? How about reaganomics?

Looks like another case of Bush's Fault(r)

This is a pretty substantial change," said MIT astronautics professor Ed Crawley, who was on a special panel that looked at the future of spaceflight for the White House. "It is more change than I thought they'd take on."

Mr. Crawley said the Bush moon plan was well thought out, but based on existing technologies and underfunded.

"We didn't lose the moon today; we very subtly lost the moon a long time ago when the amount of money disappeared a few years ago," Mr. Crawley said.

Looks like another case of Bush's Fault(r)

The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is canceling NASA's current space shuttle replacement- and lunar exploration-plan and is prepared to fight any congressional effort to save it.