Do you think we would be more effective at stopping illegal immigration if we applied NASA's 15 billion dollar budget to the border? How nessaccary is it for the well being of mankind to spend 6 billion dollars on a robot and a rocket to go to Mars and pick up rocks?
2007-03-09 21:54:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
No, all we have to do is apply existing laws to those that employ them
2007-03-09 21:59:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The occasional passion for cutting the NASA budget for 'more practical' things is somewhat short sighted. How necessary was it for us to go to the moon?
Ever use a camcorder?
...microwave...
...teflon...
The byproduct of NASA research is enormous. Those three things wouldn't exist today without the need to have small cameras to travel into space...an ability to irradiate and prepare food...and the need for a thin but strong material, it also happened not to be sticky...
The advances made in building the craft that travel to other worlds often feeds back to other industries. I saw recently the announcement of a new generation of solar cells that may actually make terrestrial solar energy more than a niche market. The development was for satellites...
There are many effective ways of stopping illegal immigration. The chief statutes I'd go after are companies that employ illegal aliens. If there are no jobs, there will be no reason to come here.
Perhaps a more reasonable approach would be to better manage the immigration process, more short term visas, and a followup system to enforce the process might help. It's a complex issue but unless your plan was to stack that 15 billion up along the border so folks trying to come across would stop there and go back...I believe the money is better spent on the research needed to move mankind off this little rock....bet there won't be any immigration problems on the moon....
2007-03-09 23:12:19 · answer #2 · answered by Clif S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fifteen billion? We are really starving NASA out of existence with that one! In 1969 we spent $24 Billion to launch Apollo 11, and take the following fact to the bank: NASA received five cents for every dollar given to welfare in the 1969 budget according to launch director Rocco Petrone of Kennedy Space Center 38 years ago
You don't want to get me started on providing equally accurate expenditures for supporting illegal aliens sanctioned by the US Government today or to provide you with something more than mere conjecture on why Challenger was executed.
All I can really say right now is a couple of hundred years ago, give or take another 35 years is we killed quite a few more Brits than we should have for absolutely NOTHING! Is it too late for me to register as a Tory with the League of Women Voters?
2007-03-09 23:05:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe they explore the other planets for the future of this one. If we can find resources perhaps yet undiscovered even on this one it will make it all worth it. Theres no telling whats up there. Its kind of like the oil companies spending allot of money to find oil. You could say "they spend allot of money to look under dirt" but that wouldn't be the full story. Plus by learning about the other planets we can learn about our own past and future.
15 billion dollars is hardly anything considering other expenditures such as the war which goes into the hundreds of billions. At-least space exploration has some more noble purpose.
2007-03-09 22:07:35 · answer #4 · answered by Ⓐ iinux2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The way to stop illegal immigration and to make those here illegally go home is NOT HIRE THEM!. The REAL ID is a good first step. With that, you will know the person holding the ID is here either as a citizen or legally and OK to hire. If they can not produce a valid REAL ID card, they are illegal so do not hire them. Once the illegals find they can not make any money, they will have to go home.
2007-03-10 12:57:30 · answer #5 · answered by forgivebutdonotforget911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, there are those who think space is the only hope of survival for the human species given our ever increasing population and already extensive damage to the globe.
Obviously, it wouldn't be open to all, however.
I'd rather use the money from somewhere else, though. We have a ton of pork barrel projects.
2007-03-10 00:48:30 · answer #6 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought that was what Nasa was for. Putting up satelites to patrol our border and shoot anyone who crosses it with tiny lazers. 6 billion dollars for a lousy robot. It better be a fembot.
2007-03-09 21:59:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as business wants illegals we will have illegals because business buys the political process by supporting with large sums of money the candidate they want. The candidates have to have the money in order to have a chance of winning so they must give into business that want cheap labor.
2007-03-10 02:15:11 · answer #8 · answered by David R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we should not spend more amount in defense as already our government has invested sufficient amount in the defense... so with this we should protect ourselves
2007-03-09 22:03:51 · answer #9 · answered by ram 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
America was built on immigration.
2007-03-09 22:26:43 · answer #10 · answered by Mighty C 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋