General Discussion

I am way in the camp that if we want to reduce spending nail the MIC and the Pentagon. More waste and fraud there than anywhere. But when it comes to bang for the buck in keeping us safe from bad actors, especially nuclear proliferation and states like China, Russia and North Korea (now adding India and Iran), these DOD satellites are a decent deal. Unfortunately repukes have slashed the US space program down to the point that we only have 2 heavy launch rockets powered by the last 8 engines from the Space Shuttle era left and those are being saved for the moon. That's 1000% pathetic seeing how NASA had one of the largest returns per tax payer dollar spent of any government entity for decades.

Unfortunately that strategy of repukes defunding NASA so much it hardly exists we are now dependent on private (ULA is a private company) companies and/or foreign (Russia up until a couple of years ago) countries. If you look at what the repukes have done to NASA over the last 25 years it's exactly what they are doing to our government now

The big difference? Nobody gave a shit about NASA until they missed it.