My thoughts on President Bush
and his Mars initiative.
    
Dear President Bush,

       First I must say expanding the space program is the last thing I would have expected out of you.

I was almost impressed. Almost. You forgot some crucial details though. You are going to give NASA

a whole billion extra this year. WHO are you trying to kid? That is barely a 3%(CNN.com) increase

in their budget. They get less than 1% of the federal budget. The US military spends more money on

their space programs than NASA has to spend(Popular Science Febuary 04). You are asking NASA

to build a Lambourgini Diablo with a penny. Your budget  shows this new initiative to be a hollow

facade. Of course it is an election year so I guess you have to say your are going to make some kind

of magic happen for the voters. What is really sad is that you are going to play with their budget and

take 11 billion from other valuable programs ex. the International Space Station. You arent fooling

me MISTER President. I won't be voting for you IN November. That is a promise. Hopefully Kerry

and or Edwards can fix what you have probably wrecked further.