Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Dept. Of 'That Was Fast'
by Tom Bozzo
It's also nice to know that the national elections would become even bigger opportunities to shake down corporations and other moneybags under this initiative. It's not like we could use a clean-government initiative or anything.
It seems like only yesterday that I'd suggested that the Bush moon mission was actually a mission to gut the NASA budget. (It actually was yesterday.) Well, behold my powers of foresight!
New York Times: Lawmakers Prepare Plans to Finance Storm Relief: The list [of potential budget cuts suggested by the Republicans] also proposed eliminating the Moon-Mars initiative that NASA announced on Monday, for $44 billion in savings; ending support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, $4 billion; cutting taxpayer payments for the national political conventions and the presidential election campaign fund, $600 million; and charging federal employees for parking, $1.54 billion. [Emphasis added.]
It's also nice to know that the national elections would become even bigger opportunities to shake down corporations and other moneybags under this initiative. It's not like we could use a clean-government initiative or anything.
