From a rather bluntly-sequenced series of sentences in President Offers Budget Proposal With Broad Cuts, the New York Times, February 8, 2005:
“The Environmental Protection Agency would cut by $500 million its program to help poor communities build wastewater treatment plants and other water projects.
The cuts would be offset to some extent by increased spending on programs Mr. Bush supports. NASA would get an added $400 million, or 2.4 percent, bringing its budget to $16.5 billion as it focuses on the administration’s long-term goal of a manned mission to Mars.”
4 replies on “And just like that, with one brave budgetary blow, we set forth to destroy this planet and get the fuck out of here”
jp, you crazy screwhead. just think of all the useful therapies they’ve developed in 0 gravity. just think of all the amazing discoveries of small, fuzzy objects that hover around the edge of the universe. why, these discoveries will lead to technologies that will someday be able to reproduce all the species we’ve lost! they’re working on this amazing ‘beam’ that just creates things out of that static pattern you get on free TV. HA! spin that you liberal freak. fuck mars, let’s go to pluto!!!
I just want a replicator. Are there plans in the budget for those?
I’m all for sending Bush to Mars, but every time I shop at Wal-mart, I get the feeling the first person on Mars will be Chinese.
I suppose that will make him or her a Wal-Martian.
Every time I go to Wal-Mart, I get a headache, and then some punk kid throws up on my shoes and pulls a display of Tampons onto my trembling body.
EVERY damn time.