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Zonie63 -> RE: newt Moon-beam want to go to the moon again.....and..... (1/31/2012 6:32:08 AM)
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Santorum said he saw no way for the deficit-strapped country to undertake a moon colony in the near future.
"The idea that anybody is going out and talking brand new, very expensive schemes to spend more money at a time when we do not have our fiscal house in order, in my opinion, is playing crass politics," the former Pennsylvania senator told students at a town hall meeting at Florida State University.
Gingrich, who described his moon plan at a campaign event on Wednesday, is "not being realistic with the people of this country as to the nature and threat of the (fiscal) problem," Santorum said.
I'm definitely no fan of Gingrich, and I like Santorum even less. But I do think it's way past time that we had a Moon base. When I was a kid, I remember the Moon landings, and it was commonly believed that we would have a Moon base by the year 2000, along with manned missions to Mars by now. We haven't been the Moon since 1972. That's a disgrace, especially since they wasted all that money on useless space shuttles. Now, the Chinese and the Russians will beat us there, and we'll be in even deeper trouble as a nation.
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