Should NASA funding be cut to balance the budget?

[Dave]

No!! Cut welfare and affirmative action programs instead.

[Banana Kid]

Dave wrote:

No!! Cut welfare and affirmative action programs instead.

Since you said that its your fault Channel 7 In Albuqurque cancelled its late-night early morning newscast. SInce you said that someone should beat you up on the Jerry Springer Show.

[Banana Kid]

Dave wrote:

No!! Cut welfare and affirmative action programs instead.

Since you said that I am going to throw you in the snow.

[Curtis Lowe]

Cut NASSAW's funding? But then we would never find out if ants can sort tiny screws in space.

[opie]

half of nasa is military dollars.

nasa is a military project in disguise.
disguise?
what disguise.
they don't try to hide it.
'space combat'
is illegal and unconstitutional for US gov'ts to do.
there are treaties the US has signed forbidding weapons in space.
US constitution reads that all treaties signed become the "law of the land".
therefore, violating a treaty is unconstitutional.
like it or not. good or bad.
also breaking international law is unconstitutional under the US constitution.

[opie]

and half 1/2 of discretionary spending of US tax dollars is for current (and past) military.
(social security is separate under a trust fund)

http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.ht...

end all war.
war cannot be a "good thing" by definition

[Dryad]

How 'bout if we stop funding the war and bring the troops home instead.

[Markus Carkus]

opie wrote:

and half 1/2 of discretionary spending of US tax dollars is for current (and past) military.
(social security is separate under a trust fund)
http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.ht...
end all war.
war cannot be a "good thing" by definition

There USED to be a separate SS Trust Fund. Then Congress spent it all and left a pile of IOUs.

[FundieSmacker]

Dryad wrote:

How 'bout if we stop funding the war and bring the troops home instead.

The military gets, last I heard, over 70% of your tax dollar, wastes 13% of that - has no idea what they spent it on according to the GAO, and morons are screaming about NASA which gets 3% of your tax dollar. Nobody who whines about what NASA gets seems to want to confront the real waste, fraud and abuse in the US budget - the Pentagon.

I'd love to hear what excuse the rabid neocons have for wasting that kind of money and then blaming NASA as a way of deflecting what the real issue is.

[Markus Carkus]

Maybe you should do some research before spouting off your liberal lies. US defense spending as a percentage of GDP is under 4% numbnuts. More dollars are spent on Social security every year than on defense.

Here's a 13 June 2008 excerpt from www.strategypage.com :

With the U.S. defense budget accounting for over half the military spending on the planet, you'd think that records were being broken. Well, they aren't. As a percentage of GNP, military spending continues a decline that has been going on since the 1960s (when, because of the Vietnam war, defense spending was 10.7 percent of GNP). That went down to 5.9 percent of GNP in the 1970s and, despite a much heralded "defense buildup" in the 1980s, still declined in the 1980s (to 5.8 percent.) With the end of the Cold War, spending dropped sharply again in the 1990s, to 4.1 percent. For the first decade of the 21st century, defense spending is expected to average 3.4 percent of GNP. Most of the current defense budget is being spent on personnel (payroll and benefits), and buying new equipment to replace the Cold War era stuff that is wearing out and to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

FundieSmacker wrote:

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The military gets, last I heard, over 70% of your tax dollar, wastes 13% of that - has no idea what they spent it on according to the GAO, and morons are screaming about NASA which gets 3% of your tax dollar. Nobody who whines about what NASA gets seems to want to confront the real waste, fraud and abuse in the US budget - the Pentagon.
I'd love to hear what excuse the rabid neocons have for wasting that kind of money and then blaming NASA as a way of deflecting what the real issue is.