Its amazing that what our government finds to spend money on. To quote the immortal PJ O’Rourke, our government spends money like third wives at Tiffany’s. Indiscriminately.
This unread blogger became aware that NASA intended to spend “just” $3 billion to send a probe to Mars, scoop up a bag of rocks, and bring it back here for study.
Unfortunately, after our millionaire government officials got their cuts, the price ballooned to $10 billion. And you know, if that’s the cost BEFORE construction starts, that means the costs will balloon to $20 billion.
Why, you ask, would anyone want to spend a nickel (current value, $.0007) for a bag of rocks? According to the article in the Washington Post, it is so we can determine if life ever existed there. Let’s suppose, for sake of argument, that life did at one time exist there. Then what? How would that improve the cost of housing in our major cities? Or help rid us of inane Kardashian stories, (you know, something of actual value?) This is not explained.
Meanwhile, the Chinese are spending their money figuring out ways to zap us with super weapons in space. Maybe $10 billion to address this threat, might just be a better idea?
Anyways, the fact that we Congress thinks we can print money like Argentinians without any inflation (note, given our current runaway inflation, we can’t do that) is the reason our federal apparatchiks spend money on hundreds of such useless programs. You know, like high speed trains in California. Or collecting rocks on Mars for no obvious purpose.
I am going to reach out to Elon Musk, and suggest that he bid on a contract to do this via SpaceX. He could charge our government $5 billion, (half off!) Then gather some rocks in Arizona, put them in a bag labelled “Mars Rocks” and everyone would be ahead.
Now, if we could send a rocket to Mars with Bugs Bunny on it, and say hello to our friend Marvin, that I could get behind. Just for the looney tunes.
For more mocking of hugely wasteful spending, I suggest reading Rand Paul’s annual Festivus report. One of my favorites is this one. The rest of the report can be found on this link. Question: where do drag queen monkeys buy their high heels and leather bralettes? A: The Amazon (yuk).
Dr. Fauci’s Transgender Monkey Study…………………………………………………………$477,121
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