I would like to point out that from what I understand NASA gets less than 1
cent of every tax dollar....
At 06:13 PM 7/14/97 -0400, you wrote:
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> I completely agree! How much is this expedition costing? I heard a figure
> of $261 million. YOWZA! How many people would that feed, clothe and
> house? By my calculations, that would take care of about 9000 people here
> in the U.S. Makes me wanna go hmmmm.......
>>>
>
>This is a good point...but considering the amount of $$ currently being spent
>to "defend" the US from countries that no longer exist using weapons that
>don't even work (about a third of the budget, I believe?), not to mention all
>the programs that used to exist but have been slashed, I think we can boost
>the less than 1% of the budget that currently goes to AFDC/food stamps and
>create/enlarge lots of great programs as well without trashing the space
>program. How many people could eat for how long off the cost of one B2??
>
>Politically yours <g>--
>
>Nicole
>
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