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2012 US Presidential Election
AceHigh:
At least they used Marshall Islands, the Brits conducted half of their nuke tests in Australia. Heh, I guess Great Britain still views Australia as their personal trash bin.
TMRNetShark:
So wait, isn't that group that stole Romney's tax returns for like 2 decades gonna release them on the 24th?
Romney even released his 2011 tax returns. Made $13 million and paid effectively 14% tax rate.
jaybug:
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on September 21, 2012, 06:51:48 PM ---So wait, isn't that group that stole Romney's tax returns for like 2 decades gonna release them on the 24th?
Romney even released his 2011 tax returns. Made $13 million and paid effectively 14% tax rate.
--- End quote ---
14%, he paid a higher percentage than did Democrat Warren Buffet. Still lower than Buffet's secretary who paid 17% rate. Buffet did pay 13%, right?
I'll bet you money that we won't have a great president, until we get one that is willing to fight congress, no matter the party affiliation. Perhaps Romney will fight them once elected, but he has so far shown he will be a go along get along guy with members of his party. Gotta just love those conservatives, eh? But then Obama has shown that he is perfectly willing to let the Democrats do whatever crazy shit they want too. So it isn't as if he is going to be a great president. Just another president. In a way these guys remind me of all the presidents of the latter part of the 19th century. Do you even know their names? Do you care?
vicious796:
All right, now Romney's really starting to piss me off.
http://news.yahoo.com/mitt-romney-reveals-space-exploration-plans-few-details-194109234.html
Yeah, Obama totally fucked up NASA all on his own. We've only been in decline in the space game for 4 years? Fuck, man, try 20 years. The only thing I really approved of Obama doing whole-heartedly was what he did with NASA. You want profits in space? The asteroid belt is the way to go! You want to go further into deep space? Once again, the asteroid belt is the ideal "resupply" and/or "safety" area for trips to Mars.
We gain very little from a moon base. We gain some stuff - and some very valuable things, of course - but not that much. The moon will be a great place to try to colonize first since it's only a couple days away. But don't say Obama destroyed NASA in 4 years when the government's been shirking it for decades.
AceHigh:
I am all for space exploration and any other kind of research that will advance humanity as a whole.
However isn't it in America's spirit to let the private sector to push the USA forward? As a comparison with the dissolution of USSR, their space program became mothballed, but as a result the present day "roskosmos" developed a business model that allows space programmes to yield profit. Don't you think the same will happen to NASA where lack of funding from the government will force them to adapt an enterprise business model and thus allow them to function without tax payers money?
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