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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
I think if we are in such financial crisis, why are you so willing to spend on NASA but not education? Frankly, the American education system is in a pretty poor state, and NASA funding can be held off until it gets back on track.
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Because there is 'other' pork that could be cut from the budget. A LOT of it.
The financial crisis exists because everyone is afraid of cutting that pork, and instead they want to take it out of 'valuable' programs like NASA.
The exploration of space is one of the most important things to mankind today. NOTHING should be hampering that quest.
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I do not agree that it is a state issue. There needs to be Federal regulation.
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Which would be in violation of the 10th amendment.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government delegated the power to regulate or fund elementary or secondary education.