Unfortunately, there are choices to be made. As Zorba the Greek said, for every woman with whom he spent the night, there were 20 he didn't. Every choice means there are other choices which cannot be made.

Space exploration takes a lot of money.

When we chose to invade Iraq, we chose to spend a lot of money that can't go elsewhere. The same with the tax cut for the wealthy - as predicted, it has not created jobs and thus more tax income. But choose that tax cut and one also chooses to abandon many other things.

Social Security is taking in more money than is going out right now, and the surplus is being spent in the Middle East. When the "crunch" comes, they'll cut the benefits. In effect, Bush has chosed to limit future Social Security benefits for a war in Iraq and a tax cut for the wealthy.

Any political candidate right now who proposes a lot of spending on space will be severely criticized. Bush found that out when he tried to emulate Kennedy.

Nope. Bush has spent the future of a lot of America on Iraq.

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