> But bankrupting America will allow the ragheads to win. A lunar colony > within 10 years will certainly bankrupt the U.S. given our current > financial situation. Does anyone think it will take less than trillions > of dollars to establish a moon base? It takes close to a billion > dollars just to launch a 20-year-old, poorly designed space vehicle into > low-earth-orbit. If Bush were serious, he would be his own worst enemy. > But he's not. This is just a reelection ploy, combined with some pork > for NASA-Houston. > > Of course, bankrupting the U.S. and getting a base on the moon are both > useful objectives. With no financially viable country owning the lunar > outpost, things could get quite interesting. >
Can't we just match this up with the 60% of the federal budget taken up by social security and medicare/medicaid by launching all the recipients of those programs to the moon?
