{"id":1503,"date":"2010-01-27T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2010-01-27T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:35:21","slug":"obama-billions-for-acorn-but-not-for-the-exploration-of-space-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/obama-billions-for-acorn-but-not-for-the-exploration-of-space-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Billions for ACORN, but not for the Exploration of Space!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn’t new news, I ran the same headline back in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well it’s back in the news<\/a>, including a link at Instapundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The troubled and expensive Ares I rocket that was to replace the space shuttle to ferry humans to space will be gone, along with money for its bigger brother, the Ares V cargo rocket that was to launch the fuel and supplies needed to take humans back to the moon.<\/p>\n

There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases, no Constellation program at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So no money for the exploration of space, but our Dear Leader still wants to give billions of tax payers dollars to the crooks<\/a> at<\/a> ACORN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is yet another really bad move on the part of Team Lightbringer<\/em>. As I said in back in September.<\/p>\n

One thing that is clear from the American space program is that it created high paying, high tech jobs that contributed to the health of the American economy and spin off technology that has not just benefited America, but humanity as a whole. I\u2019m not talking just Tang and Velcro here folks. The GPS system and satellite TV just two examples of space program spin off technologies that are still driving growth industries today. The weather satellite system that makes it possible to produce enough food to make famine obsolete is also a product of the US space program.<\/p>\n

Ya, I said enough food to make famine obsolete. Let\u2019s be honest here people, any wide spread famine on this planet in the last couple of decades has been the result of politics and not the lack of ability to produce or deliver the food.<\/p>\n

To recap, an additional $3 billion a year to NASA would once again put Americans on the Moon. It would also be highly beneficial to the US economy by fueling the high tech industry, putting skilled American engineers back to work and producing a very noticable \u201ctrickle down\u201d (more like a monsoon) effect on the industries that support that high tech economy. It would also spark an renewed interest in the sciences in American schools and universities, and promote a sense of adventure in America in a positive and constructive endeavor.<\/p>\n

Instead, our Dear Leader and the s0-called democrat \u201cleadership\u201d in Congress would rather pour that tax payer money down the drain by giving it to their political allies who are under investigation for massive vote fraud in multiple states.<\/p>\n

Is this the \u201cHope and Change\u201d you were expecting?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr. Reynolds points out<\/a> that he spoke to “some folks at the International Space Development Conference a couple of years ago who were really high on Obama \u2014 they thought he\u2019d emulate JFK when it came to space policy.” \u00a0Smart folks, but clearly delusional when it comes to politics. \u00a0There is nothing in our Dear Leader<\/em>‘s thin resume that suggests the he is pro-science in general, and he certainly has never been pro-space exploration. The worst part is that these same people would probably vote for Obama and his Socialist policies again, much like a battered wife with a black eye telling a police officer that her abusive husband “really loves her.” \u00a0Pathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This isn’t new news, I ran the same headline back in September. Well it’s back in the news, including a link at Instapundit. When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The troubled and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,19,31],"tags":[73,140,238,251,549,621,720,759],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-politics","category-the-peoples-commonweath","tag-acorn","tag-barack-obama","tag-corruption","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-nasa","tag-politics","tag-space","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-of","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}