Re: A Reagan quote

From: Mike Combs (mikecombs_at_nospam.com_chg_nospam_2_ti)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:25:17 -0500

"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> You should blame him. He wasted trillions on weapons to prepare for
> the mythical battle of armageddon, which many of his supporters were
> convinced would occur at the millennium.

I'd say money spent running communism into the ground was hardly a waste,
whether it got applied to the task of fighting a nuclear war or not.

> If it hadn't been for his
> religious kookery and bizarre voodoo economics then we might have had a
> lot more money for space exploration.

Since Apollo, how many new space initiatives have come from Democrats? How
many from Republicans? 

-- 
Regards,
Mike Combs
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We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the
best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the
Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely.
Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is
"somewhere else entirely."
   Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier"