Astronauts need clean water, not the poor!
From the New York Times, via Low Culture:
"The Environmental Protection Agency would cut by $500 million its program to help poor communities build wastewater treatment plants and other water projects.Please, please, please tell me how this makes sense. Someone. Anyone?
The cuts would be offset to some extent by increased spending on programs Mr. Bush supports. NASA would get an added $400 million, or 2.4 percent, bringing its budget to $16.5 billion as it focuses on the administration's long-term goal of a manned mission to Mars."
UPDATE: Read PS206's comment. Though the question was indeed rhetorical, he answers it very well. Thank my lucky stars the readers of this blog are often more adroit than the writers.
2 Comments:
Drinking untreated wastewater will create superhumans who will be able to breathe the fetid gasses of yonder planets and colonize them with ease.
C'mon. This is a rhetorical question, right? The EPA regulates businesses run by friends of Bush. The EPA cuts into profits. NASA is largely based in Texas where a lot of Bush's friends have businesses. This makes total sense. It is greedy and uncaring policy from a greedy and uncaring administration.
Bush doth protest too much. Compassionate Conservative. More like Callous Yahoo. Uniter, not a divider. How about Mr. Polarization? Let's see if he can get the deficit to $1 Trillion. Then push to open up ANWR to help pay for the budget shortfall. Fucking pig.
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