Will The New Republican-Led House Try to Cut NASA's Budget? - Polidicks

[QUOTE] By Keith Cowing on November 3, 2010 5:14 PM 13 Comments Does GOP Control Of House Jeopardize NASA's Future?, WFTV [IMG]http://images.spaceref.com/news/congress.nasa.jpg[/IMG] "The Republicans ran their election campaigns promising to cut government spending and that puts the extra shuttle mission, and much of NASA's future in question. Congress still has to approve billions for NASA. It gave its OK to fly Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis one more time, but it hasn't provided funding for that last extra Atlantis mission. In fact, NASA needed more money for it and the space agency could be fighting just to keep what it has under the new Congress. While there have been a lot of discussions, and even a vote in Congress to allow NASA to fly the space shuttle Atlantis one more time next year, there's a chance the change in power in Congress could not only keep Atlantis from making that extra trip, it could cut into NASA's future." Election Brings New Leadership to NASA Oversight Committees, SpaceNews "In the meantime, with incoming Republican leaders threatening to dial back discretionary spending across the federal government next year, the $19 billion Congress authorized for NASA in 2011 could be in jeopardy. House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), who is expected to become speaker of the House in January, voted against the recently enacted NASA legislation and more broadly has pledged to roll back spending in an effort to reduce the federal deficit." Boehner's challenge: Uniting establishment lawmakers, emboldened freshmen, McClathcy Newspapers "Boehner also has called for extending tax cuts and reining in federal spending to be priorities. On spending, he's called for ending the practice of rolling many federal programs into comprehensive spending bills in favor of requiring specific votes agency by agency. "Members shouldn't have to vote for big increases at the Commerce Department just because they support NASA," he said last month in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute. "Each department and agency should have to justify itself each year to the full House and Senate, and be judged on its own." [/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/11/will-the-new-re.html[/url] Yes, they will kill NASA and claim Obama's plan was all part of the social-communist Obamacare Illuminati spending anti-GOP conspiracy. And say Obama is also a shape-shifting alien lizard who shot a Christian man from Reno. Also Obama is poi...soning your eggs 9/11 Vote Palin.

I'll fucking kill them if they do

I doubt they will.

"Congress to sell NASA to the Chinese, more at 11."

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;25854830] Yes, they will kill NASA and claim Obama's plan was all part of the social-communist Obamacare Illuminati spending anti-GOP conspiracy. And say Obama is also a shape-shifting alien lizard who shot a Christian man from Reno. Also Obama is poi...soning your eggs 9/11 Vote Palin.[/QUOTE] Oh God, what? No one will kill NASA and the rest of your post is complete nonsense.

[QUOTE=evilweazel;25855186]Oh God, what? No one will kill NASA and the rest of your post is complete nonsense.[/QUOTE] Kinda the point.

hey republicans if you want to cut a budget, cut down on your failing war on drugs and military spending.

[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyAlt;25856054]hey republicans if you want to cut a budget, cut down on your failing war on drugs and military spending.[/QUOTE] NO those are working

I certainly hope not. Space exploration comes only behind robotics and cybernetics in my listing of "incredibly cool fields of science."

Most likely going to get boxed for this, but fuck shooting money into space. I'm fine with the government spending exorbitant amounts of money on things, but NASA isn't one of them.

We're actually building interplanetary spaceships and asteroid defense capabilities with that budget if it goes through. They'd better not touch that shit. [editline]4th November 2010[/editline] [quote=sporkfire;25856945]most likely going to get boxed for this, but fuck shooting money into space. I'm fine with the government spending exorbitant amounts of money on things, but nasa isn't one of them.[/quote] [highlight]asteroid defense capabilities[/highlight]

[QUOTE=ASmellyOgreV2;25856971]We're actually building interstellar spaceships and asteroid defense capabilities with that budget if it goes through. They'd better not touch that shit. [editline]4th November 2010[/editline] [highlight]asteroid defense capabilities[/highlight][/QUOTE] rather spend it on our crumbling and outdated infrastructure, than sending a shiny spaceship into the void.

[QUOTE=Sporkfire;25856945]Most likely going to get boxed for this, but fuck shooting money into space. I'm fine with the government spending exorbitant amounts of money on things, but NASA isn't one of them.[/QUOTE] Space is an untapped goldmine which may hold the key to solving any number of the world's problems, which I don't know anywhere near enough about to comment on any further than this, but which I still feel safe enough asserting without evidence.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;25857077]Space is an untapped goldmine which may hold the key to solving any number of the world's problems, which I don't know anywhere near enough about to comment on any further than this, [B]but which I still feel safe enough asserting without evidence[/B].[/QUOTE] Is this some kind of cleverly veiled jab at space funding? Okay, no it's not.

[QUOTE=Turnips5;25857100]Is this some kind of cleverly veiled jab at space funding?[/QUOTE] No. If I could find wizards to grant me huge sums of money, I would donate it to Nasa. What I mean is, I don't personally know a damn thing about space exploration, but I am absolutely one-hundred percent certain that we need to invest in it [i]now[/i], because it's really cool.

[QUOTE=Turnips5;25857100]Is this some kind of cleverly veiled jab at space funding?[/QUOTE] Well he is a big dumb American. [QUOTE=Big Dumb American;25857132]No. If I could find wizards to grant me huge sums of money, I would donate it to Nasa.[/QUOTE] Damn that would solve all our money problems eh, infinite $

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;25857132]No. If I could find wizards to grant me huge sums of money, I would donate it to Nasa.[/QUOTE] Okay, cool. [editline]4th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=superdinoman;25857139]Well he is a big dumb American.[/QUOTE] He's a very smart guy, and not just because he thinks space funding is important. :colbert:

[QUOTE=Turnips5;25857100]Is this some kind of cleverly veiled jab at space funding?[/QUOTE] No, think about it. In order to get to Mars, you would have to build the most efficient radiation shielding, replenishing food and water supply, medical equipment, etc. EVER DEVISED. Do you have any idea how much this would affect life on Earth? [editline]4th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Sporkfire;25857076]rather spend it on our crumbling and outdated infrastructure, than sending a shiny spaceship into the void.[/QUOTE] And I'd rather not die from being unable to push a rock. Besides, compared to the total amount of money the government spends in its other agencies yearly, NASA is nothing.

[QUOTE=ASmellyOgreV2;25857194]No, think about it. In order to get to Mars, you would have to build the most efficient radiation shielding, replenishing food and water supply, medical equipment, etc. EVER DEVISED. Do you have any idea how much this would affect life on Earth?[/QUOTE] No, I understand completely, just the last bit of his post threw me a little.

[QUOTE=superdinoman;25857139]Well he is a big dumb American. Damn that would solve all our money problems eh, infinite $[/QUOTE] Infinite money = Infinite inflation = infinite shit

[QUOTE=Turnips5;25857161] He's a very smart guy, and not just because he thinks space funding is important. :colbert:[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DrBreen;25857854]Infinite money = Infinite inflation = infinite shit[/QUOTE] Both of you are excellent at detecting sarcasm and deserve rewards. :downs:

[QUOTE=superdinoman;25858005]Both of you are excellent at detecting sarcasm and deserve rewards. :downs:[/QUOTE] I could see the sarcasm in your second statement, but not the first. Please explain how "well he is a big dumb American" has ANY hint of sarcasm at all.

It's kind of appropriate at this time. The United States can't even get a proper form of healthcare, and we're still reeling from that dumb recession years ago. The money needs to be focused on more Earthly things at this moment.

B-but space is awesome :saddowns:

well republicans arnt known for a love of science, but hopefully they like the idea of going to a new planet is as much the rest of us edit haha silly ridge getting offended about a simple true statement

Double the money spent on Nasa, it will mean 2 percent of the government income is spent on them.

[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyAlt;25856054]hey republicans if you want to cut a budget, cut down on your failing war on drugs and military spending.[/QUOTE] hey democrats if you want to cut a budget, cut down on failing minority programs, and a horrendous health care bill.

[QUOTE=Mr.Dounut;25860434]hey democrats if you want to cut a budget, cut down on failing minority programs, and a horrendous health care bill.[/QUOTE] because unlike the war health care helps people

Well, this would be terrible, but not the tragedy it would of been 10 years ago. We have private companies expressing an interest in spaceflight, so the torch will continue to be passed (albeit a little slower without NASA).

[QUOTE=MrBob1337;25861055]Well, this would be terrible, but not the tragedy it would of been 10 years ago. We have private companies expressing an interest in spaceflight, so the torch will continue to be passed (albeit a little slower without NASA).[/QUOTE] I dont see that many companies having interests in finding alien life