Below is an excerpt from:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20030613-025324-6671r.htm

"The case that Bush is a big spender is irrefutable. Federal spending on Bush's watch has sky-rocketed. According to the Heritage Foundation, the years 2000 to 2003 marked the biggest spending spree in the history of the United States, except for WWII. Total spending has gone up nearly 14 percent in Bush's first three years, and discretionary spending has gone up nearly 20 percent. Bush spent a pile not only on guns, but on butter. Non-defense spending has gone up by almost the same amount as defense spending, and defense spending constitutes barely a fifth of the total increase in spending from 2000 to 2003...Bush has an annoying habit of opposing proposals on the grounds they're bad policy or too expensive only to end up supporting them when the pressure gets too intense...He hasn't vetoed any spending bills and he hasn't proposed any huge spending cuts the way Ronald Reagan or Newt Gingrich would have."

Meanwhile, our national debt just set an all-time record of $6.6 trillion dollars (and that reportedly excludes social security and medicare):

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm

I guess if it's good enough for Japan to bankrupt one's self despite having a rapidly aging population, it's good enough for us too? Either way, pro-entrepreneurial space reforms will seemingly HAVE to come into favor if we're not to lose even more ground regarding space:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/reforms

Otherwise, there won't be enough money...