unfortunatly, I think that space exploration is going to have to go commercial for awhile if we want to save it. Thanks to Obaraka Bin Cutbacks, Nasa is pretty gutted and won't be doing anything fancy for awhile.
I mean, instead of cutbacks he could have maybe, oh I don't know, had people investigate the MASSIVE amount of fraud involved with unemployment and disability? I seem to remember someone from the government saying that an estimated 30% or more of the money paid by unemployment is fraudlent (as in, paid to people with jobs), not only that, but upto an additional 20% is going to people not even looking for jobs, but just manipulating the system.
Does Obama have this MASSIVE amount of fraud investigated? Nope, he raises the budget for it and guts Nasa.
Don't even get me started on disability. I know a lot of people need it, but a good percent of that is also fraudlent. And what is with fat people getting disability? They are too fat to work, so we give them money to buy MORE FOOD? How about we don't give them money, they can't get food, lose weight, and REJOIN THE WORKING CLASS.
Seriously, fraud infuriates me to no end, especially when instead of calling for accountability, our president decides to just cut funding from what was not just our future (like it or not, we are gonna have to colonize space eventually), but was the one single thing the US does that noone could bitch about or hate us for.
He had the shuttle plan canceled, and we were going to pay the russians about half of what we were paying to develop the shuttle to put our people in space, then guess what? Russian technology FAILED and now we are probably gonna have to abandon the ISS, and I guarantee that the second that happens, if we don't bring it crashing down skylab style, the Chinese are gonna take it before we can get people back up.
And PROTIP: Russian isn't giving the money we paid them to transport astronauts back to us. Basically, we just GAVE them a few billion dollars.
/TEMPORARILY END RANT WHILE I ATTEND CLASS