Word: money
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...budget as a whole is in bad shape because we're spending $86 billion on our own military, and a lot of our foreign aid money on war toys for tin horn dictators. Not because we're spending what we do in space...
First of all, it is clear that legislators are not holding back money from poverty programs (on a conscious level) so they can get us first to the moon. Taking our national government's spending as a whole, what is wrong with it is that we're putting much too much into the military and not enough into equalizing opportunity in our society...
Congress won't spend more on poverty for two reasons: 1) too many of them have a conservative's paranoia about the dole; and 2) there isn't enough money left over in the budget as a whole as it is worked...
Right now the government keeps its influence over the economy by chucking $86 billion into missiles and tanks. It can't put this money into poverty programs because billions of dollars just handed over to the poor would ruin our whole competitive ethic (this is what everyone in Congress thinks anyway; and of course, it isn't true. But unfortunately they decide...
...important to realize that everything is related when it comes to parcelling out the government's money. All is one. You can't just kick the government's in the space program and expect to see money come pouring out over in the poverty place...