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Originally Posted by Allen Farlow
And Kev, did you ever stop to consider that some people don't have the funding to go to college? Some must go to work and earn a living to support their family straight out of high school,
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Its called community college and night classes. I did it for 4 years at Lamar College in Port Arthur, Texas.
Besides college, there are certification classes people can take to better themselves.
NASA and other government funded projects have been the corner stone of modern civilization. Everything from Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand funding Christopher Columbus in 1492, to the atomic bomb, to vaccines, have been funded by one government or the other.
Lets say that funding is cut to NASA. While some other country continues to do research and development. And somewhere in there a weapon is discovered that can destroy entire cities, kill millions of people in a split second,,,,. Who is the world leader then?
That would be like bringing a modern weapon to a sword fight.
Some of the discoveries that the people at NASA find help keep the USA secure and a world leader and super power.
So we would rather let our enemies pass us up, develop better weapons, better space ships, better planes, all to help some homeless people?
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
When some crazy leader - like whats going on in north korea - starts talking about nuclear war, I can say to myself - "the USA has the best military in the world, go ahead and bring it on." The engineers at NASA have a part in all of that.
Do you want to hide in fear from leader of north korea, or do you wanna drop a cruise missile on his head? If you say - "better him the us" - then you better keep funding NASA.