{"id":39924,"date":"2013-12-08T12:52:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T19:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/08\/part-of-our-national-character.html"},"modified":"2013-12-09T09:54:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:54:29","slug":"part-of-our-national-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/08\/part-of-our-national-character.html","title":{"rendered":""Part of our national character""},"content":{"rendered":"
Maybe that's where we've gone wrong in some fashion — pulling back from optimism, from can-do, from showing<\/i> we're the best, to stridently asserting the claim and building new weapon systems to try and demonstrate it and grumbling about taxes spent on "Others."<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

"But more importantly, supporting a robust space program raises everyone's expectations of what is possible."\u00a0<\/p>\n

The $1.5bn annual that Nye is recommending is just over two days' worth of what we were spending in Iraq at the height of that war. Planetary science gives back to our economy like a giant money machine, and raises our brand around the world.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Bill Nye\u2019s Open Letter to President Obama<\/a>
\n You may know Bill Nye as the Science Guy, but he\u2019s also a passionate supporter of scientific research and CEO of The Planetary Society, a phenomenal group that advocates for planetary exploration. For the past couple of years, NASA\u2019s budget for planetary mission has been on a bizzare roller coaster…\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe that's where we've gone wrong in some fashion — pulling back from optimism, from can-do, from showing we're the best, to stridently asserting the claim and building new weapon systems to try and demonstrate it and grumbling about taxes spent on "Others." Reshared post from +George Wiman "But more importantly, supporting a robust space … Continue reading “"Part of our national character"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,82,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-space","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134503,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/so-were-in-an-economic-emergency.html","url_meta":{"origin":39924,"position":0},"title":"So … we’re in an “economic emergency”?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Sep-17 8:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump has been crowing non-stop, even before he assumed office, over how great the economy is doing because of his actions. 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