Well Dubya's at it again. $2.5 BILLION on setting up a moon base and for marriage. That's right, $2.5 BILLION, out of your pockets, for marriage and a moon base. While we have a huge-ass deficit.

Mind, I don't mind promoting healthy marriage, and I think a base on the moon is a damned neat idea, but not in the middle of an estimated budget deficit of $500 billion (http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/story/?story=NewsStory/dowJones/20040113/ON200401131855001577.var&column=P0DEC).

All this spending is quite a feat for the "less-spending" party, eh?

Marriage (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/14/politics/campaigns/14MARR.html?ei=5062&en=4de1d4434bd90853&ex=1074661200&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position=)
Moon (http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040114_941.html)

The marriage thing sorta baffles me, but, it's just a (I can't resist) back door method of fighting the gay rights stuff.

Yeah, that kind of stuff drives me nuts. He's still not as bad as the "Republican" governor of Ohio - he spends like a drunken sailor.

I can't find myself getting too bent out of shape about these things - in the scheme of the federal government $2.5 billion isn't much. We spent many times that amount on a highway for Boston. But I agree, a time of deficits is not the time to be spending money on discretionary items that don't have a big impact on economic growth, even if they are relatively small.

space(moon) I believe Bush is just trying to keep up with the next super power CHINA.

As far as the marriage B.S. goes I think it is crap. What's next, the guy with the small d**k bill?

Originally posted by es347fan
The marriage thing sorta baffles me, but, it's just a (I can't resist) back door method of fighting the gay rights stuff. LMAO

(from the Guardian)

Critics allege that it is little more than a stunt, aimed at an election year. They point out that Mr Bush's father also announced a Mars mission when president in 1989, but the scheme was rejected by Congress when Nasa priced it at $400bn. The tag on the new initiative is considerably less, but space experts argue that even with savings from the shuttle and space station, the budget is unrealistic.

"The first year after Kennedy announced the Apollo programme, the Nasa budget was doubled," said senator Bill Nelson, a former astronaut. "And in the second year it was doubled again. That's not realistic today. But 5% a year increases are not going to get us to the moon."

New money spending, Bush wants to give 3.7 billion to church groups. He said we as Americans need faith and should make sure it stays for the future.

I say stop all this crazy sh** and just go for a flat 6.2 billion. That way we can fly all the fags to the moon where they can open a gay church and have a happy marriage