Times again:
Administration officials say they are planning an extensive election-year initiative to promote marriage, especially among low-income couples, and they are weighing whether President Bush should promote the plan next week in his State of the Union address.
For months, administration officials have worked with conservative groups on the proposal, which would provide at least $1.5 billion for training to help couples develop interpersonal skills that sustain "healthy marriages."
This is another big waste: notice it is more than double the NASA increase. For what? To promote marriage? People ae getting married right and left: if anything, the brakes need to be put on all this reckless marriage. I recommend a program in which every couple considering marriage would be locked in a federally funded room together for one federally funded week. Sex would not be allowed. That would open some reckless marrying eyes.
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
New York Times:
President Bush is preparing today to sound a new call for manned space exploration, reviving a vision put forth by his father 15 years ago: returning to the Moon and eventually sending astronauts on to Mars.
The president, who is scheduled to speak this afternoon, is expected to propose an increase of about 5 percent, or $750 million, in next year's budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with similar increases to follow over the next several years.
Because, even with war and tax cuts, we just really weren't broke enough. Also, who can forget the great advances in science that the first moon landing made possible: everything from Tang to a stiff wire that holds up your flag when there is no atmosphere.
Yeah, landing a man (or two) on Mars would be pretty cool, but it doesn't really seem like a great use for our money. We could at least go to Venus, which an old movie assures me is full of beautiful women who are very interested in these "men".
President Bush is preparing today to sound a new call for manned space exploration, reviving a vision put forth by his father 15 years ago: returning to the Moon and eventually sending astronauts on to Mars.
The president, who is scheduled to speak this afternoon, is expected to propose an increase of about 5 percent, or $750 million, in next year's budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with similar increases to follow over the next several years.
Because, even with war and tax cuts, we just really weren't broke enough. Also, who can forget the great advances in science that the first moon landing made possible: everything from Tang to a stiff wire that holds up your flag when there is no atmosphere.
Yeah, landing a man (or two) on Mars would be pretty cool, but it doesn't really seem like a great use for our money. We could at least go to Venus, which an old movie assures me is full of beautiful women who are very interested in these "men".
