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Has anyone else actually viewed the video? Frank's statement was to the point that there were areas of spending that could be cut to finance a public health care system in the U.S.
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Frank campaigned on a platform of
screwing over NASA.
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One of these areas would be a manned mission to Mars which he posited would cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
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That's over a period of decades. Social welfare programs burn though that much money in
months. That's like a husband squandering hundreds on a night at the casino and complaining about his wife buying soft drinks because it cost him that much over a course of a year.
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This isn't about cutting funding to NASA at all - in fact, Frank even iterated that he was in favor of instrumental space missions.
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Let's turned this around. If a politician proposed slicing Medicare by 99.99% of its budget and then claims to support it because he's in favor of a free band-aid program (only one per person per year of course), would you honestly claim he was for Medicare?!? An exaggeration but the point Frank wants to derailed manned exploration of space, which goes against the very purpose and existence of NASA.
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While the merits of his points might be debatable, this OP is terribly misleading
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I'm misleading people now?!? Well, let's see how misleading the title really is. Fact: on more than one occasion, Barney complained that NASA was getting hundreds of billions to go to Mars (hundreds of billions is quite a lot for an agency that only gets $18 billion per year). Barney wants to cut those hundreds of billions for his health care plan. Now, what was my title again? Oh yes, it's "Barney Frank wants to gut NASA for government-run health care". NASA is going to lose a sizable percentage of its budget and have it redirected towards the train wreck that is nationalized health care. Looks pretty damn accurate to me.
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- this item is barely newsworthy and it certainly doesn't merit its own thread. If someone wants to argue about the costs and merits of NASA, then please start up a new thread on it. Discussion of the American health care system can go to the The Future of US Healthcare thread.
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Attempts to derailed manned exploration of space is certainly newsworthy, and a lot more than the latest Michael Bay Failformers movie. But I'll gladly start a new thread on the importance of space exploration.