Dear Houston,
If on Tuesday, you help allow Barack Obama to become the Democratic candidate, you are an idiot.
Houston is one of the top four largest cities in the United States of America. This is thanks to a decision made by President Johnson to put base NASA here.
Now, NASA and its employees and contractors make up a good percentage of the residents of this large city, and thus, contribute mostly to the economy. In fact, whenever I work in a retail environment to make some more money (since NASA is grossly underfunded to begin with), roughly half of the debit cards used to make transactions are from JSC Federal Credit Union, a bank that has a very limited clientèle of US Government employees. Thus, if NASA has to tighten its belt, which Obama wants to see, the local economy of Houston goes down the tubes. Also, if NASA does have to cut back, they'll start with cleaning staff, who are, in my experience, mostly of a South American/Central American origin, which would greatly hurt the "Latino" community.
If you think NASA is overfunded, think again. It gets LESS THAN 1% of the national budget. If we ended NASA right now, we could fund the war for an additional three weeks per each year without NASA. Also, NASA does more than send monkeys and other less hairy primates into space: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/nasacity/index.htm.
So, this Tuesday, vote for someone who WON'T ruin our chances at advancing in Science and Technology. And since a vote for/against McCain is essentially worthless, I'd highly recommend Clinton. There.
Sources: NASA Watch, NASA.
Crossposted in The Eventide Knave and The Gangster of L'Oeuf.
If on Tuesday, you help allow Barack Obama to become the Democratic candidate, you are an idiot.
Houston is one of the top four largest cities in the United States of America. This is thanks to a decision made by President Johnson to put base NASA here.
Now, NASA and its employees and contractors make up a good percentage of the residents of this large city, and thus, contribute mostly to the economy. In fact, whenever I work in a retail environment to make some more money (since NASA is grossly underfunded to begin with), roughly half of the debit cards used to make transactions are from JSC Federal Credit Union, a bank that has a very limited clientèle of US Government employees. Thus, if NASA has to tighten its belt, which Obama wants to see, the local economy of Houston goes down the tubes. Also, if NASA does have to cut back, they'll start with cleaning staff, who are, in my experience, mostly of a South American/Central American origin, which would greatly hurt the "Latino" community.
If you think NASA is overfunded, think again. It gets LESS THAN 1% of the national budget. If we ended NASA right now, we could fund the war for an additional three weeks per each year without NASA. Also, NASA does more than send monkeys and other less hairy primates into space: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/nasacity/index.htm.
So, this Tuesday, vote for someone who WON'T ruin our chances at advancing in Science and Technology. And since a vote for/against McCain is essentially worthless, I'd highly recommend Clinton. There.
Sources: NASA Watch, NASA.
Crossposted in The Eventide Knave and The Gangster of L'Oeuf.
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