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In article <D7vq6y.ABr@freenet.niagara.com>, msteele@freenet.niagara.com
(Mike Steele) wrote:

>Stuart Croall (umcroall@cc.umanitoba.ca) wrote:
>: > What about colonizing? Seems you want to limit mankinds potential to
>: > "go where no one has gone before" simply to save money. What do you
>: > propose to do with all this saved money?
>
>: > You are proposing limiting the potential technogical advances we can
>: > make in this area of research, but to what end? 
>
>
>: > Ken
>
>  No seriously, why can't 
>: this money be reinvested to, oh, pay off the debt, which everyone wants 
>: to use social program money for.  When that's done, we can use it to 
>: provide free post-secondary education and improve our other levels of 
>: education...there are always ways to spend money.
>
>        I've always been an advocate of space exploration (any 
>exploration for that matter), but at such a tremendous price for many 
>fruitless missions, the money could be better spent, just like Stu 
>mentioned.  The debt it Canada's main concern, not the outer limits on 
>the galaxy.

Some people just don't seem to understand that cutting the deficit/debt is
not an end in itself, it is but a means to a better financial situation.
I know, this is the nineties (lowercase intentional :-)), I should expect
this ;-).

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