Neil Armstrong: Obama is hurting the space effort

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

jeez, is anything not about welfare with you people? We're talking about space and it takes you all of two posts to shoehorn welfare into the conversation.

I didn't mean to take it there, honestly, but the original criticism was that the space program was a waste of money, and that all we got out of it was "Tang and Velcro".

I was merely extending that line of reasoning, that if government expenditure should have "value", then clearly spending a sum of money for something in return is better than getting nothing. One example of getting nothing -- in fact, getting less people to work through subsidies -- is the current implementation of the welfare program.