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Friday, January 09, 2004

From the party of "small government"

President Bush will announce plans next week to establish a permanent human settlement on the moon and to set a goal of eventually sending Americans to Mars, administration sources said last night.

The sources said Bush will announce a new "human exploration" agenda in Washington on Wednesday, six days ahead of the final State of the Union address of his term and just as his reelection campaign moves from the planning stage to its public phase.

An hugely expensive proposal ($800 million) at a time when our deficit is the largest it's ever been and a project that won't actually take place for TEN YEARS, well after Bush is out of office. Can you say "campaign ploy?"

Or maybe "gift to the aeronautics industry?"

Sources said Bush will direct NASA to scale back or scrap all existing programs that do not support the new effort. Further details about the plan and the space agency's revised budget will be announced in NASA briefings next week and when the president delivers his FY 2005 budget to Congress.

posted by chris at 9:41 AM
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