NASA's unmanned spacecraft Mars Curiosity Rover is scheduled to land on Mars August 6th where it will perform chemical experiments paving the way for a manned mission to the Red Planet in the 2030's. And as a warm-up for that mission we're planning to land a man on an asteroid in 2025.
Lemme get this straight....we have a 15 TRILLION dollar national debt, we're tacking on another trillion or so a year, we're trying to decide what we can live without (fix the bridges?...cut Medicare?...delay the Social Security retirement age?...keep the post office open?...) yet we're gonna spend billions to plant a flag on Mars? Really? A flag? Big f__king whoop!
If you were broke, couldn't pay your mortgage, only had a few cans of beans in the pantry, couldn't get mama the operation she needs, and couldn't buy new school shoes for your growing kids, would you sell your blood in order to get a few bucks so you could buy a dirt bike?
Going to Mars would be cool, just like riding a dirt bike would be fun*, IF we had our fiscal house in order and had some fun money to spare. But we don't. This is insane!
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*so I'm told
