Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
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Re: Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
#2It's refreshing that given everything else happening, Congress is still at least functional at this level.
Should be noted that many of NASA's programs are situated in predominantly conservative areas of the country. Brings lots of jobs and resources to the local economies.
Re: Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
#3So what are the odds that Trump just takes away the money anyway, and the Supreme Court lets him?
Re: Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
#4It's refreshing that given everything else happening, Congress is still at least functional at this level. Should be noted that many of NASA's programs are situated in predominantly conservative areas of the country. Brings lots of jobs and resources to the local economies.
I just wish Congress or the Supreme Court would show any teeth whatsoever. Right now most of the firings have been happening illegally, despite all of these programs already being budgeted for and funded.
Re: Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
#5I hope they manage to do something similar for the NSF. The proposed cuts there are crushing. The NSF funds great science in all parts of the country, and subsequently tons of jobs to the area.
Re: Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
#6It's refreshing that given everything else happening, Congress is still at least functional at this level. Should be noted that many of NASA's programs are situated in predominantly conservative areas of the country. Brings lots of jobs and resources to the local economies.
No, it is not
With level of debt and borrowing, cannot afford more spending
Re: Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
#7It's refreshing that given everything else happening, Congress is still at least functional at this level. Should be noted that many of NASA's programs are situated in predominantly conservative areas of the country. Brings lots of jobs and resources to the local economies.
No, it is not With level of debt and borrowing, cannot afford more spending
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Re: Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
#8It's refreshing that given everything else happening, Congress is still at least functional at this level. Should be noted that many of NASA's programs are situated in predominantly conservative areas of the country. Brings lots of jobs and resources to the local economies.
No, it is not With level of debt and borrowing, cannot afford more spending
If the debt is a problem worth addressing, then why did the big ugly spending bill raise the debt by trillions of dollars?
Re: Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
#9It's refreshing that given everything else happening, Congress is still at least functional at this level. Should be noted that many of NASA's programs are situated in predominantly conservative areas of the country. Brings lots of jobs and resources to the local economies.
No, it is not With level of debt and borrowing, cannot afford more spending
So why did Congress increase the deficit, they don't care so why should we cut back spending on actually good things.
Re: Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
#10It's refreshing that given everything else happening, Congress is still at least functional at this level. Should be noted that many of NASA's programs are situated in predominantly conservative areas of the country. Brings lots of jobs and resources to the local economies.
Except SLS/Orion should be cancelled. The SLS is pejoratively called the Senate Launch System, because it has no real place in the market yet is continuing to consume tens of billions of dollars. It was mostly obsoleted by Falcon Heavy years ago (SLS has been a black hole of funding since 2011), and its costs are completely ridiculous. You're looking at billions of dollars per launch if it ever is confidently flight ready.
And mind you it's not some amazing technological marvel that's driving these ridiculous costs. It's essentially a really expensive refactoring of the Space Shuttle program to the point that it will be using the literally exact same rs-25 engines.
And you already hit exactly on why they're not being cancelled - there's going to be a very short degree of separation between Congressmen and the people charging absurd costs for simple tech that's being used in this project. To me, this is perhaps the purest embodiment (and reason) for governmental dysfunction, at all levels. It's simple pork and corruption.