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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 861624" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>I see your point, but understand this. NASA receives less than 1% of the total federal budget. To say that we can solve our federal governments debt problem by cutting out NASA is akin to saying we can do the same by just cutting out foreign aid which also makes up less than 1% of the federal budget. I am not saying I agree with our foreign aid program, but what I am saying is there are much bigger budget fish to fry in order to get our federal government's spending in line. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Obama care are four giant(and growing) parts of the federal government's budget all of which will consume it entirely and them some if they are not reigned in or eliminated. We also waste a lot of money on pointless studies and questionable causes. When its easily provable that our space program has been beneficial to society as a whole I cannot see any logical reason to eliminate it based on its almost negligible cost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 861624, member: 249"] I see your point, but understand this. NASA receives less than 1% of the total federal budget. To say that we can solve our federal governments debt problem by cutting out NASA is akin to saying we can do the same by just cutting out foreign aid which also makes up less than 1% of the federal budget. I am not saying I agree with our foreign aid program, but what I am saying is there are much bigger budget fish to fry in order to get our federal government's spending in line. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Obama care are four giant(and growing) parts of the federal government's budget all of which will consume it entirely and them some if they are not reigned in or eliminated. We also waste a lot of money on pointless studies and questionable causes. When its easily provable that our space program has been beneficial to society as a whole I cannot see any logical reason to eliminate it based on its almost negligible cost. [/QUOTE]
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