Best wishes, Ron Robins

I do though believe that we want to make sure their is not as much pork as the last one. Unfortunately, when reading through the last economic stimulus plan – it had SOO much pork that had nothing to do with economic stimulus. I always do get scared of large robust stimulus plans.

So what do I think? I think that we need to create economic stimulus plans that are piece by piece that get passed. That way we can test the waters with the first part, based on its results we can pass the second one. When they are smaller I believe their is a better chance that they won’t have as much pork!

Thanks for a great post!

Prabhjit Singh

Americans have a century of advertising messages that glorify carbon fuel products. Only recently this has become a heavily funded PR campaign. Totally contrary to our long term interests.

This is an easy choice to make if we use logic, or if we decide as a species whether we want a future. However, we are cursed by our persistenly nurtured emotional, delusional, reptilian thinking.

The first thing we need is to learn to think clearly.

Here’s the key part of the article from:

http://www.chron.com/ disp/ story.mpl/ editorial/ outlook/ 6138224.html

The Obama space policy provides a blueprint for leveraging increased NASA funding to meet the new administration’s broader economic, innovation and environmental goals. Key areas for stimulus investments might be:

Increasing research and technology funding for exploration that not only will aim at addressing the challenges in completing the next generation of space vehicles but developing the innovations needed to look beyond the moon to further destinations in our solar system;
Funding commercial space capabilities that will enable NASA to forgo low earth cargo transport and focus squarely on its core mission of exploration and discovery;
Building a robust R&D community around the ISS that will leverage this unique resource to seek advances in energy independence, public health and technology development;
Conducting leading edge research in materials and technologies that will create cleaner, greener, and safer aircraft for the future;
And implementing the most comprehensive Earth observing and climate monitoring network in the world that will be a vital component to understanding and addressing the most pressing problems of our own planet.

See comments here in July, or specifically mine on never scheduling breatkthroughs and “progressive commitment”.

Put another way, we need to spend more money, but we really have to spend it wisely.