I want NASA to fix my car!

NASA has a 14 billion (that’s with a “B”) dollar a year budget. Obama and McCain are looking at giving them additional funds, up to 2 billion dollars ( there’s that “B” again) so we can see if ice crystals formed from water on other planets can sustain life at the sub atomic level. WHAT!!! Huh!!! Kidding right???
I’m all for looking for Klingons and trying to find out if Mr. Spoke is still alive, but come on! 14 billion? Really? My dad always said, “Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.” If we really want this money to do some real work for the American people and humanity at large let’s get a little more creative.
In the US at any given time about 1% of the population is homeless. That’s about 3.5 million people. 14 billion would give them $333.33 per month. That is more than the cost of government subsidized housing, so they should have a few buck left. Every day 35 million Americans face hunger. 14 billion would by each one of them 1 Angel Food box per month. Considering that many of these people are families and not individuals, the money for each would be combined to create a family fund. ( example homeless family of 4 would get $1333.33 per month) If you take out government rent and 4 Angel food boxes per month they would still have about $800.00 per month left for health care and to help start a new life.
Wait. Did we just wipe out hunger and homelessness in America and help them get health care with out raising taxes any more or creating National Health Care? OK, forget that , I want NASA to fix my car! That’s right FIX MY CAR! If they can send space ships, satellites and the space station into space for long periods of time and run all those operations with no gas station, they can give me a car that will not have to use gas. I know they can do it, I’ve seen the movie “The Right Stuff” (good pic by the way.) In the movie there is a scene where the space capsule in on trouble. They pull all of the NASA egg heads into a room with only items that are in the capsule in the quantity that the capsule has. They say “figure it out, you have 9 hours” and close the door. Sure enough they solve the problem and the capsule is saved. Let’s do that now.
I recommend that we do not spend another dime on any space agency activity until they figure out a few things for us hear on earth. Lock them in a warehouse with some tools and some duct tape and give them a time limit. If they pull it off, they get there funding. If they don’t, then they weren’t all that smart to begin with. For every dollar they request they must create something that will alleviate our nations burdens by one dollar. That fare right? They get what they want and we get what we need. It’s a standard business practice. If my employer pays me $10 per hour I must generate him at least $20 our he will go out of business. If the US pays NASA 14 billion then they need to create 28 billion to help the US sustain it self. If not the we all go out of business.

No, I am not running for office, don’t ask.