"Hey Russia, Can We Hitch a Ride."

With the Space Shuttle getting ready to be retired and the funding for the new space program Constellation being cut the United States will soon find it's self in the position of having to hitch a ride into space with the Russians.  I find it completely unnecessary and actually irresponsible that our Federal Government is doing this.  Lets go through the list of things off the top of my head that don't need to be funded by our Government:

1. Bailout of Chrysler and GM - $30 billion plus.
2. Bailout of AIG - at least $85 billion
3. Stimulus Package - more than $800 billion

Just those 3 things alone equal almost 1 Trillion Dollars!  You are telling me that we cannot fund NASA?  Stop spending money on bailing out the Auto and Insurance Industry.  America didn't want the stimulus package, which hasn't stimulated anything except to get my blood boiling every time I hear about the amount of waste within it.
We can't send Astronauts back to the moon because we don't have the money for it?  America, how can we sit back and allow greatest Space Institution in the world become second rate?  How can we hitch rides into space with the Russians when we are the ones who put a man on the Moon?!


"Hey Russia, Can We Hitch a Ride."


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