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Originally Posted by Allen Farlow
Cute, Kev. You make it sound like everything will disappear if Nasa dies. We won't be living in huts and caves...but we will free up a lot of money that can be put to better use,
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Someone gives you some money to go to college on. But instead, you go out and give it to homeless people, and donate it to charities,,,,, - so you do not go to college.
Instead of getting a good paying job as an engineer making 100,000 a year, you get a job at minimum wage bagging groceries.
So instead of paying taxes on a nice car, paying property taxes on that nice house, paying sales taxes on items that you buy - and those taxes going to help the homeless, your living off of food stamps and low income housing.
You would have been better served in the long run to take that money, use it get yourself an education, get a good job and pay taxes.
The money that the government gives to NASA has a ripple effect through our society. Kids go to college in the hopes of going into space. Those educated people then invent stuff that affects our society.
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Originally Posted by Allen Farlow
See my point?
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Sorry, no I do not.
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such as making sure homeless people don't freeze to death every winter
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Have you ever heard of a space blanket? It reflects 90% of your body heat - invented for the space program.
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or that kids go to bed without being hungry.
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Well, their parents should have gone to college instead of giving their money to homeless people. Maybe they will use those memories to better themselves and their family.