President Obama's NASA Vision
President Obama addressed the issue of the US Space Program this past week in Florida. From the Kennedy Space Center, he talked about a path forward for NASA. One with a direction toward expanding our efforts beyond low-earth orbit, where the Space Station and Space Shuttle inhabit. I applaud his words.

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My American Brothers and Sisters,

We stand together as members of the first century of the third millennium. On this day, an encumbered burden for our generation weighs mightily on our minds. For this is Tax Day, born of the 16^th Amendment to our Constitution, ratified in the winter of February 1913, wholly One-Hundred and Thirty Seven years after that fateful July morning of 1776. A land, a people and its generation would choose, that day, to set in motion the inheritance of an income tax that we have to this day.

The great American Republic has since built a governmental and regulatory beast that once took and re-apportioned a mere tenth of its citizen’s wealth, but has now bloomed into a system that finds nearly half of our economy born of a government program.