NASA’s Idea of Winning the Future is Less than Inspiring
Remember when the people who ran NASA aspired to great things, like putting men on the moon and exploring the vasty blackness of our final frontier? These days, it takes much less to get then excited. Witness the headline of today’s big press release:
NASA Announces Plan To Win The Future With Fiscal Year 2012 Budget
Hoo boy, there’s some serious ad astra stuff going on there!
I think we can say that “Win the Future” has officially jumped the shark. When an agency that should be all about the future uses the phrase to talk about its budget, we can safely say that it means nothing at all. We will never win the future with a government budget. Heck, we won’t even win the present with the bloated carcass called a budget the administration dragged in front of Congress today. It’s sad that, in my lifetime, our government has gone from winning the space race without a focus group-approved Presidential motto to losing the space program with this limp slogan.
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- Hey, Aliens? A Little Help?
- There’s Water on That Thar Rock!
Category: Our New Democratic Overlords, Out in the Black
