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Subject: Your vivid imagination... Author: Ned Depew [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 09:49:01 08/09/05 Tue In reply to: Thomas Koulos 's message, "NASA and the world watch Shuttle adventure." on 09:20:46 08/09/05 Tue Tom - While I agree with your applause for our astronauts, you are imagining that "environmentalists" as a group are opposed to NASA. The truth is that many "Conservative" groups who have nothing to do with environmental concerns oppose what they see as the wasteful spending for very little practical result that NASA represents. Some people who support environmental causes may also oppose NASA - but not on "environmental" grounds. I don't know of anyone or any group that has opposed NASA on "environmental" grounds. Once again, you are simply mistaken, and spreading your own mistakes around. Please don't do it here. You seem to have bought the myth - hook line and sinker - that NASA is some great adventure. But our first astronaut suggested that the humans included in the program were little more than "monekeys in a can" - added for their PR value, not for any valid scientific reason, and there is significant evidence to back up that view. While the NASA program has made some contributions to the nation as a whole - mainly in communications, materials and electronics sciences - these small gifts have come at a very high price. In a country where we "can't afford health care" for all our citizens, and some people go hungry every night, is that the best way we should be spending billions and even (over time) trillions of our dollars? Or are we like the people living on welfare in shacks, feeding our kids Wonderbread and MacDonalds with a brand new Cadillac parked outside the door? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: Your vivid imagination... Author: Gene [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:32:14 08/09/05 Tue Ah, com'n Ned, you said everyone is working, so there shouldn't be any welfare shacks and bread lines. What about all those teenie telephones that have come to us by way of NASA, what a godsend. Is it true, like that women said in the R-S letter none of the Nimby businesses on the grand dame of Warren St donated to the Hudson High Booster Club and why not? Could this be the differences between Old Timers and the Newcomers? The Oldtimers care about their neighbors and not the selfish buck.

[> [> [> Subject: Gene's vivid imagination... Author: Ned Depew [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:54:46 08/09/05 Tue Gene - If imagine you can you believe everything that is published in the R.-S. - especially everything that is published in the letters column - no wonder your information is always so bad - like this. Many Warren Street businesses have donated to the Boosters Club. Someone (do the initials D.G. or R.S. ring a bell) is trying to play the "newcomers vs. old-timers" card once again - as you are as well. It's "divide and conquer," The GOBs divide the City and then , if their ploy works, get to divide the spoils among themselves. It wouldn't surprise me if you fell for it - after all, you fell for SLC's lies time after time - but I do hope the electorate as a whole has been fooled once, and won't be fooled again. Its a sad, dishonest little ploy, but that doesn't seem to bother any of you. That's too bad for us and too bad for Hudson, but in the long run it's most too bad for you, as you end up looking like a patsy and fool - just like you did in the SLC affair, and you will again if you persist in such behavior.