Oh brother. You liberals are all claiming the early demise of the U.S. and it cracks me up.
MM, what the hell do you think is being cut in Bush's budget..........the war in Iraq? Not likely!! So far the space program has been able to maintain the status quo but for how long.
You talk about how this economy is doing so well.......well then, tell me why stocks in only 3-4 sectors are doing well....energy, housing and defense? How can three sectors be the engine to keep us from going back into recession?
Congress is out of control. Every bit of pork they want they get. Bush is out of control. He keeps coming back to Congress with more war supplements. How long do you think this can go on before we start to lose our standard of living?
Iran, NK and Russia are thumbing their noses at us. Why doesn't he attack them? I'll tell you why. We can't afford it.
This is a joke. You wouldn't run your house this way but you think the national gov't can. Wake up and smell the coffee!
You think the U.S. isn't leading the space race? We have two rovers on Mars that have outlived their useful lives many times over and have provided more data on Mars than any other countries efforts to date. We still have the most advanced space technology in the world and Bush continue to spend big through NASA.
Did you think the change will happen over nite? Space programs take years to build momentum and grow before they come into their own. It will take a while for us to look like a second fiddle.
We have the only space program aimed at manned flights to Mars. We ARE leading. You just can't see past your hatred of Bush to see it.
We have not had a space flight in over a year because of the last disaster. In the meantime, everyone else has been putting up flights left and right. Europe's Arianne rocket can compete with anything we have. It had its first successful flight just a few weeks ago.
I am not making it up. Its in all the papers. You sound like the Boeing execs from a decade ago whenever the discussion of Airbus came up. According to them, there was no way that Airbus could ever beat Boeing in quality and performance.
Flash forward ten years.......guess what......the airbus is a superior, more fuel efficient plane that can fly with two in the cockpit, not the three required by Boeing jets. Boeing just placed a big order of 737s with Ryannair. They gave the planes away......it was embarrassing.
Meanwhile Airbus has had the largest number of orders for the past two years and is coming out with its super jumbo plane in the next year. Boeing is still talking about stretching the 747. The more orders that Airbus places, the more it insures future orders since airliners realize economies by having all the same equipment. Only defense is saving Boeing's butt right now.
And it doesn't stop with Airbus. France's defense/fighter jet industry is considered by some to be superior to anything we have in the US. Competition grows more fierce by the day. If much of our resources are going to fight an unwinnable war in the ME, then something else will have to give.
It's kind of like today's Palestinians. Oftentimes, they can't see past their hatred of the Jews to the possibilities of peace. Likewise, the Israeli extremists can't see past their anti-integration views. Luckily for them, enlightened men like Abbas exist to help lead them out of their own myopia. So who will lead you past your hatred of Bush to see how the world really is?
Just like the Palestinians, I have many reasons to hate Mr. Bush. I refuse to ignore him.
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