Comments on: Space vs. education http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/23/space-vs-education/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=space-vs-education Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Jayrtfm http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/23/space-vs-education/#comment-159 Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:39:43 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=79#comment-159 or…. take money out of school sports programs and use that for education

]]> By: Dwayne A. Day http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/23/space-vs-education/#comment-158 Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:40:56 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=79#comment-158 Some slightly random observations:

This article is twice as long as it should be. The Daily Nonpareil needs to educate its editor.

For a staff writer, Mr. Boyce is remarkably opinionated. Some of the assertions in the article would not pass journalism 101.

Why is NASA picked as the whipping boy here? Other than a single mention of an earmark for an indoor rain forest, couldn’t they come up with other examples of wasteful government spending? Why not pick on something nearer and dearer to the left’s heart, like funding for arts programs?

The author’s understanding of the budget is pretty limited. Considering that the federal budget deficit is topping $500 billion this year, why doesn’t Mr. Boyce argue for using NASA funds to balance the budget? Or alternatively, why doesn’t he argue for adding an extra $9 billion to the deficit?

Two can play at this game. Are there things more important than education? How about starving babies? Maybe we should take money out of education to help feed starving babies? Or maybe the people who want more education spending prefer that all those starving babies die, huh? (A little devil’s advocacy there.)

]]> By: Alex Kirk http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/23/space-vs-education/#comment-157 Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:05:18 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=79#comment-157 Actually, part of the reason people think like this — and a large part of the problem with NASA’s existing funding — are the committees they dwell in inside Congress. NASA is stuck under VA-HUD & Independent Agencies in both houses of Congress. This means that every time they go for a budget increase, they run up against tons of people saying, “You’re taking money from poor homeless children!” or the like. If NASA’s funding came out of its own committee, or even a more favorable existing committee, a lot of its budgetary issues would disappear.

]]> By: Kevin Parkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/23/space-vs-education/#comment-156 Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:32:03 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=79#comment-156 Space exploration is a powerful motivator for people of all ages to want to learn. I don’t think many people doubt this any more.

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