CrusaderFrank
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Obama killed:
1. Our credit rating
2. US Space program
1. Our credit rating
2. US Space program
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Obama killed:
1. Our credit rating
2. US Space program
57Frank & other like- minded, butthurt people's heads will explode when our President is reelected![]()
Humor???? The free market sans regulation killed our credit rating, along with Reagan, Clinton, and Bush Jr. As for the space program allow me to repost.
This is one area in which I have mixed concerns or even considerations. Going up into space gives us what exactly? Hubble was amazing and that seemed valuable, but sending people up there reminds me of when the rich went to the shore or the mountains to escape the heat and crowded city. Our bridges are falling down, our inner city schools are a wreak, our museums need work, and more than anything else our education system needs values. Space seems uninteresting. And when you get into particle physics there's no need to go up, just look down.
As for private business doing anything, that was always a joke and a dream of libertarian types. All the great accomplishments of this country came from people and from government. Research in America has taken a back seat as money wants the stock to rise the hell with how. Consider Bell Labs as an example, today Bell labs is in China. JFK sent us to the moon and it was about the cold war and sputnik, time we all woke up to take care of the earth and the place we walk on. Motivation is often neglected in analyzing these developments.
"In 1929 Federal, state, and municipal governments accounted for about 8 percent of all economic activity in the United States. By the 1960s that figure was between 20 and 25 percent, far exceeding that in India, a socialist country. The National Science Foundation reckoned that federal funds were paying for 90 percent of research in aviation and space travel, 65 percent in electrical and electronic devices, 42 percent in Scientific Instruments, 31 percent in machinery, 28 percent in metal alloys, 24 percent in automobiles, and 20 percent in chemicals." William Manchester "The Glory and the Dream"
PS I do like my titanium bicycle, I read that was developed during the space program. Join us all in the value conflict. Healthy children or rocket ships.
Obama killed:
1. Our credit rating
2. US Space program
I will never ever forgive him for 2#. The bastard!!!
Agree w/ the above 57Frank. How are you going to manage if/when the President is reelected?You know he's got a $1,000,000,000 in his war chest right?
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I will never ever forgive him for 2#. The bastard!!!
He killed the one program that represented undisputed American world leadership.
He does not have American best interest at heart
Agree w/ the above 57Frank. How are you going to manage if/when the President is reelected?You know he's got a $1,000,000,000 in his war chest right?
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I will never ever forgive him for 2#. The bastard!!!
He killed the one program that represented undisputed American world leadership.
He does not have American best interest at heart
It seems pretty clear that he has only - ever - had his own interests at heart. I've never heard a president use more personal pronouns in his speeches than this self-obsessed narcissist.
Humor???? The free market sans regulation killed our credit rating, along with Reagan, Clinton, and Bush Jr. As for the space program allow me to repost.
This is one area in which I have mixed concerns or even considerations. Going up into space gives us what exactly? Hubble was amazing and that seemed valuable, but sending people up there reminds me of when the rich went to the shore or the mountains to escape the heat and crowded city. Our bridges are falling down, our inner city schools are a wreak, our museums need work, and more than anything else our education system needs values. Space seems uninteresting. And when you get into particle physics there's no need to go up, just look down.
As for private business doing anything, that was always a joke and a dream of libertarian types. All the great accomplishments of this country came from people and from government. Research in America has taken a back seat as money wants the stock to rise the hell with how. Consider Bell Labs as an example, today Bell labs is in China. JFK sent us to the moon and it was about the cold war and sputnik, time we all woke up to take care of the earth and the place we walk on. Motivation is often neglected in analyzing these developments.
"In 1929 Federal, state, and municipal governments accounted for about 8 percent of all economic activity in the United States. By the 1960s that figure was between 20 and 25 percent, far exceeding that in India, a socialist country. The National Science Foundation reckoned that federal funds were paying for 90 percent of research in aviation and space travel, 65 percent in electrical and electronic devices, 42 percent in Scientific Instruments, 31 percent in machinery, 28 percent in metal alloys, 24 percent in automobiles, and 20 percent in chemicals." William Manchester "The Glory and the Dream"
PS I do like my titanium bicycle, I read that was developed during the space program. Join us all in the value conflict. Healthy children or rocket ships.
Agree w/ the above 57Frank. How are you going to manage if/when the President is reelected?You know he's got a $1,000,000,000 in his war chest right?
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