If we want to talk about the questionable usage a funds for the shuttle program, take a look at the government, taxpayer funded contracts awarded to our military/industrial complex on any given DAY and you will find that sum to equal or surpass the ANNUAL budget of the shuttle program. Our useful wars have created lots of much needed death and destruction, millions killed and maimed, while the shuttle program has only helped to expand our knowledge of the cosmos, service telecommunications satellites, build the ISS and so forth. Yes, I suppose we need expand the influence of the drug cartels, er, companies, and to take care of poor starving children, but until we put some perspective on our priorities it won't happen. "The American Dream is alive and well; you just need to be asleep to believe it." ---George Carlin

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