Congress-and it seems the President-don't have any trouble shelling out $ 680 billion a year for defense spending but can't come up with $ 100 billion for health care for nearly 50 million Americans. In the mind of this writer, we would be better off with a healthy and cared for population rather than an over-inflated military industrial complex that hasn't met a weapon it didn't like. Then there is spending on a program to take us back to the moon-or somewhere else out there. NASA just launched a rocket whose flight lasted two minutes, according to The Record article today. This was only a first step in the moon return project and was carrying "throwaway ballast and sensors"; this is one hell of a way to get rid of some trash. This money- $ 445 million-was spent while the entire program may be scrapped. Go ahead, call me a Luddite, but it seems that $ 445 million could be put to a much better use here on earth
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