As NASA’s final Space Shuttle mission prepped for launch to the International Space Station, Claire McCaskill was sounding off on what is shaping up to be America’s final fleeting moments of dominance in space. Although, instead of marking the sad occasion with recognition of all that NASA and the shuttle missions have accomplished over the years and the American lives sacrificed along the way, she regurgitated the same tired Obama line about moving into a future without NASA’s dominance in space.
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill said this could open the door for private, government-subsidized aerospace companies to make their first forays beyond the Earth’s atmosphere…
“I think you’re still going to see a very aggressive space program, it’s just going to be fashioned differently in terms of a public-private partnership,” McCaskill said.
Obama cut $20 billion from NASA’s budget, ending the Constellation program, nixing George W. Bush’s planned return trip to the moon, and putting literally the greatest minds of our time on the unemployment line.
The President and other McCaskill-minded Democrats claimed the $20 billion cut to NASA was a move to reducing the national debt. To put that number into perspective, $20 billion is roughly what the military spent last year in Iraq and Afghanistan just on air conditioning, or in relation to the national debt is just 0.004% of the $5 trillion Obama has added to the debt since assuming office two and a half years ago.
Gutting NASA’s budget did absolutely nothing to make a dent in the debt. You couldn’t even call it a drop in the bucket.
And who, exactly, is funding and running the private companies that Barack and Claire believe will take us into the next era of space exploration? The same ultra-rich entrepreneurs and investors that McCaskill and the Obama Administration have declared class warfare on, that’s who.
If the Left is going to crucify “private jet owners”, how exactly they come down on the side of private spaceship owners is a mystery.
- B.H.
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