Why is NASA so much more important that america lives???

Question

12 Billion per year on average is used on NASA's budget, and how any homeless people are there in america???

Where are our priorities?

lets not forget the lderly, and the low incomed who cant afford healthcare?

Answer 1

Don't for an instant think that I'd shovel my money into subsidizing government freeloaders if it weren't for NASA!

America is a great opportunity for people to make something of themselves...it isn't a place for people to live off the efforts of others.

Answer 2

12 Billion dollars, that is a lot of money. If I gave all of it to the poor, the homeless, the unemployed do you really think it would help for more than a couple of days? No it wouldn't. A large portion of the poor are poor because they have chosen not to be employed. If employed they have chosen not to be educated so that they can get a better paying job. Many of the homeless have mental issues and perhaps money might help here as long as we didn't actually give them the money. We could use it to ensure they get the help they need. Oh wait, we already do that and they still are homeless and not taking their meds. The unemployed are the ones that money could help these are people that want to work. Money could help them job search or get training in a new field in order to get a better job it could do a lot of these things but many of the unemployed would look at it as charity and not accept the money. One other thing, I don't think you understand is that the research that has gone into the space program has benefited the people in the world so much. In the areas of medical care, nutrition and (dare I say it) commerce. Many of the great strides we have made have come about through research and training for space exploration.

Answer 3

Go do some research on the countless things we use everyday that came directly from the space industry (the desktop computer you are using is a direct result of the space program, plastics, just to name a couple). The space program has benefitted the US in countless ways. A better comparison would be the almost $700 Billion we've spent on a war in Iraq that we were deceived into initially supporting. What would even a portion of that $700 Billion done for the homeless, the elderly, etc?

Answer 4

Your right, we should give NASA more money and launch all of the homeless people into space...

Why didn't i think of that.

Well on a serious note there are very little homeless people in the states, what we have a major issue with is the concept of being poor in America.

We take care of those that are needy and we still have enough left over to do such things as space flight. I just wish we would do more in the latter realm. Where is our new space shuttle and our sun system ships. NASA needs more money not less.

If you still feel bad about homelessness in America, i suggest you do something more substantive than posting on Yahoo Answers.

Answer 5

Do you realize how little that is from the National Budget? Maybe we should cut the Military Budget some instead, stop spending for ships that the Navy doesn't want(true story that the ship was built in some Congressman's district so he INSISTED it be built against the Navy's wishes). The money spend on NASA DOES do some good. Do you realize how much we have gained the space program? Heck if NASA could hold patents and make money off the stop that it invented and was invented FOR it then they wouldn't NEED the money for their budget, they would be MAKING money for the National Govt. They aren't a private corporation though so they can't make the money off their knowledge.

Answer 6

Its not that NASA is more important than lives, its just that a lot of tax payers are sick and tired of footing the bills for the never ending line of "homeless people", or "low income", etc, etc.
We hear all the time of some women popping out baby after baby just to stay on welfare, or the ones that get food stamps then sell them for pennies on the dollar, or the guy that refuses to work so his family turns to welfare.
We aren't supposed to do anything for our country except support a good number of worthless deadbeats? While not all people on welfare are deadbeats, and most Americans don't mind at all helping the truly needy, its just that there has been so many that have abused the system that Americans have a bad taste in their mouths when it comes to "helping the needy".
BTW, I say double NASA's budget!

Answer 7

And yet just look at the industries that have grown from NASA technology...industries that provide jobs to people like you and me.

NASA researchers determined that cutting thin grooves across concrete runways reduces the risk of hydroplaning. The grooves improve tire friction performance in wet conditions by 200 to 300 percent. This innovation is used at airports and on streets and highways throughout the United States, helping to reduce highway accidents by as much as 85 percent.

With the help of Hubble Space Telescope technology, biopsies can be performed without a scalpel. Technology developed for monitoring changes in the Earth's atmosphere is now being used for the early detection of breast cancer.

Some five million Americans suffer from "hardening of the arteries" (atherosclerosis), the single biggest cause of heart disease and related ailments. Until recently, heart bypass surgery was the main treatment for serious cases. Now, a "cool laser" developed by NASA solves the problem with a relatively non-invasive procedure.

Others:

CATScan
MRI
laser technology
satellites (GPS, telecommunication, environmental monitoring, farming and fishing, forest and ocean management, meteorology, map making, etc.)
hydroponics
cordless appliances (cell phone, drill)
smoke detectors
water filtration
heart monitors/pacemakers
portable X-ray machines
freeze-dried food and concentrated baby food

Instead of just giving people handouts, isn't providing jobs for them a worthwhile priority?

Answer 8

12 Billion is chump change! Yes, we could spend it on the poor, homeless, and the elderly but it would be like throwing pearls to pigs! The worthless, lazy and weak will always be with us and they are taken care of to a large extent anyway. The ones who fall through the cracks do so because they choose to do so and/or are mentally deficient (which is another problem altogether). We should DOUBLE NASA's budget: I'd choose the stars to welfare programs any-day!

Answer 9

12 billion towards NASA is good for the economy. Landing on the moon (even IF it was faked) had such a psychological effect on the nation that in my opinion, it is one of the driving factors that we are still a super nation. I think a money dump in NASA could generate the next leap that could shake the low moral that the war has left on the nation.

Answer 10

No body is saying it is . The issue is letting our country turn into a socialistic state that fails. Letting our Government run our lives is not a answer. why is there homeless people ? Fix that , don't just say throw them some of my hard earned money and hope they can survive. Maybe putting them to work on some of the jobs the illegals are doing will give them enough money to survive on their own.

Answer 11

Read Nasa (pre-Cheney changing it illegally) mission statement. They work for the betterment of all mankind, protecting the planet, seeking knowledge etc.

Yes, we've got problems internally, but without growth and expansion of knowledge you stagnate and die.

If you want to find worthless programs you can look much closer to home, try some of those huge white buildings in DC where we pay people great salaries, give them amazing benefits, and take care of them for life sometimes so that they can take bribes and sell us out to corporations in the form of tax credits and direct tax rebates while the same corporations simultaneously report that theyre struggling so they need the money and report record profits