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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
Education of American children is much more important than NASA. NASA is nothing without it. Good luck finding 'pork' that is abstract as the NASA program.
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Ugh.
Read my post. There is 'other' pork to cut from the budget in order to fund the education plan.
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Americans see it as a luxury program and that's why it's been targeted by Obama to be cut.
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Luxury program? You think the most brilliant minds in the world working together for the greater good of humanity is a luxury? Give me a break.
Its been cut because Obama, just like every other politician is afraid to cut the 'real' pork in the budget.
9.4 billion in earmarks in the 2006 budget according to a Congressional Panel.
And it all includes stuff like this....
$25,000 for the Clark County School District in Nevada for "curriculum development to study mariachi music
$6.3 million for wood utilization research and $1.7 million for the International Fertilizer Development Association.
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The CAGW compiled $27.3 billion in what it deems wasteful spending for 2005, up 19 percent from last year's total of $22.9 billion.
According to the CAGW, there was more pork this year than in any other, with Congress stuffing 13,997 supposedly frivolous projects into 13 appropriations bills. This is up 31 percent from 10,656 projects last year.
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http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/15/news/economy/pork/
Please tell me cutting funding for NASA is more important than cutting funding for the International Fertilizer Development Association.
Please.