@S1-A.ARPA:host.MIT-MC.ARPA (05/10/85)
From: crash!bnw@SDCSVAX.ARPA
>Are we increasing benefits to the poor? NO
Although I feel the concept of cutting NASA's budget for any reason is
foolish and may be called criminal by future generations, Mr. Lake has mis-
understood the argument just slightly. It isn't that the money cut from NASA
has been given over to welfare/poor. Rather, cutting x dollars from NASA
supposedly means that x dollars don't have to be cut from programs for the
poor.
This is, of course, stupid. The whole of NASA's budget is only a small
fraction of the welfare budget. DOD probably spends more money running
officer and enlisted clubs (read "bars"), swimming pools, golf courses, and
similar non-essentials. [Before anyone jumps on me for this last, I'm
active duty career military. They are supposed to be my benefits. I say that
they ARE unimportant. Cut them, not NASA.]
/Bruce N. Wheelock/
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