If the next president wanted to cut NASA funding to better help our economy, would you be outraged?

Question

As much as I love space and all that stuff I wouldn't be all that angry if the next president cut NASA funding to better the economy. Just think about how much it would it help. I mean we spend billions on space travel and from my knowledge we haven't colonized any planet yet. But tell me your opinion!

Answer 1

Yes, we should cut welfare, medicaid first.

Answer 2

we also spend billions fighting a war on drugs that has and will fail, and only colonizes prisons.

Answer 3

Every one of those NASA dollars is put into our economy.  Not one dollar is on the Moon or Mars, or circling a planet.  If you cut NASA, you eliminate thousands of jobs in the USA.

Cutting NASA spending to save money would be counter-productive.

The United States leads the world in technology and communications, mostly due to the advancements we made in our space program.  If anything, we should be spending more NASA money.

It would hurt the economy and our world standing in technology and communications if we cut NASA spending.

Answer 4

Not at all.  Let some other country spend the big bucks required for continued space exploration.  

Answer 5

No because it will be funded by the public sector

Soon you will see  advertisements on the shuttle

( if its good enough for our astronauts  then its good enough for our world )   GE electronics   Goodyear tires  etc

Hey we need to get chit figured out on our planet  before we s***w anymore of em up  

I Think we share this universe with other beings   and I'm sure  they would not allow us to  s***w up  much more  lol

I think that's why we haven't back to  do much on the moon

We are not allowed to yet

Peace

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Answer 6

Beside the money-- there are a ton of things that we have started using every day over the past 20 years that were developed originally by NASA for space.  You cut that area and you are cutting out part of our major research and development crew.  For example, almost anything done with lasers started in NASA.

Answer 7

h**l NO! Why cut such a small budget?

They hardly take any in to begin with!

"For comparison, the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars have cost U.S. taxpayers approximately $604 billion over the past seven years vs. the entire fifty year history of NASA expenditures."

Answer 8

Budgeting whether personal, state or national, it's about choices and what's most important.  We can put our space program on hold for a few years while we get our financial house in order.

Answer 9

for me, it would depend entirely on what they cut out first.

i think NASA could be invaluable to humanity in the distant future should we make it that far.

but there would come a point where the present would be more important.

i would giveup military funding first, well significantly cut back on it at least. and tax the higher tax brackets more first. there's probably other stuff i would cut first but i don't have all the information i would need to make any kind of decision like that.

basically I would try to keep it as much as possible, but at the end of the day it's non-essential in the immediate future, except for satellite stuff.

Answer 10

Yes, because bush & cheney volunteered to be the crew on the first manned space flight to uranus!

Answer 11

I think ending the war is the first priority that will cut spending.

As for NASA, I think it is reasonable if economical issues are given more preference, so put NASA on the back burner but once we are out of the war we can focus on exploration and such.  

Answer 12

Science is necessary. The search for the truth is part of human experience.

Many technological advances come from the development of weapons and space exploration. They serve a purpose.

Answer 13

But yet we spend 10 billion a month on an illegal war in a country that wants us out.