What America Should Be Spending Money On
While our Great Democratic Empire is bankrupting itself buying munitions, plumbing the depths of corruption and exploring the permutations of profiteering, the European Space Agency is investing in humanity’s future. For a mere $140 Million, they designed and tested a new space drive in their tiny craft SMART-1, operated it for almost two years by remote, and finally impacted the craft into the surface of the moon to gain data on the mineral composition of a crater aptly named Lake of Excellence.
For the price of The War Against Terrorism (aka TWAT) America could have launched thousands of similar probes, hired an army of remote operators and invented a new industry. Doing so would advance scientific knowledge, scoured our solar system for resources and put to good use money that is otherwise wasted on destruction. It could bring in a new era of exploration, help design systems that could mine planets by remote control, thereby easing the strain on Earth’s diminishing stores.
But no. Our leaders are not so daring. They pretend to herald in a New American Century through failed military tactics of the last century while lining their stock portfolios with paper from the same defense contractors whom are grafting the government dole to benefit shareholders. Mass Murder for Immediate Gains v. Risky Expenditure for Future Profit.
Hmm…Is there such a word as Nationcide?