Listen here Mr. President,

I haven't really had much of a problem with you so far. I understand that our economy is weak and that no one really knows what the best route to recovery is. I haven't been overly vocal about all of the money we've be spending (wasting, investing, whatever you want to call it) on silly bailouts, but let me tell you something.



Leave NASA alone.



I mean come on, all of the money we've given to companies with obviously failing business models. Not to mention the 14000 earmarks in this year's budget. $50 Million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa? Really?

Now the new NASA program, Constellation, is up for REVIEW by some of Obama's boys to see if it's going to be a waste of time. I'll tell you what a waste of time is, putting together a team of so-called experts to scrutinize NASA's budget, probably costing several millions of dollars, and allowing things to go on anyway. This is wasteful political posturing by an Administration that wants to appear to be concerned with spending.

The truth is in 2009:

Federal Income: $2.7 trillion (estimated)

Federal Spending: $3.1 trillion (estimated)

Difference: -$611 billion

The Constellation Program is going to cost $22 billion. That's a whopping .007% of the estimated federal spending.

But to be fair, looking at it like that Iowa's Indoor Rain Forest is only eating up .000016% of the budget. Why shouldn't the great people of Iowa have their own little Jungle Land.