Perry Blames Obama for Shrinking Government

Posted on: July 29, 2011 8:59 AM, by Ed Brayton

Those conservatives are all about smaller government -- unless it might hurt their district or state to make it any smaller.

Limiting government for Gov. Rick Perry doesn't mean limiting space exploration. In a statement following the safe return of the space shuttle Atlantis this morning, the governor took his own moon shot at President Obama for cutting Houston jobs and NASA.
Citing the 42nd anniversary this week of the first moon walk, Perry went on to say that, "this administration has set a significantly different milestone by shutting down our nation's legacy of leadership in human spaceflight and exploration, leaving American astronauts with no alternative but to hitchhike into space."

Except it was Bush -- from Texas -- who decided to end the shuttle program.

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/07/perry_blames_obama_for_shrinki.php

proactive ignorance

W really screwed that agency ...... his build a "fort" on the moon and then build a rocket there to fly, land, and return to the moon
scheme did not help either.

and their state legislature to secede from the UNION, and then they can help fund through tax breaks and incentives, their own "private" for-profit space exploration program with their own banks using their own assets and currency.

After all, unfettered corporate capitalism is capable of doing anything when freed from the confining shackles of stifling socialist government regulations, right Governor Perry?

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Funny, I don't see no space exploration mentioned in the Constitution. Surely if the Founding Fathers intended the Federal Government to put people on the Moon, they'd have said something about it?

Posted by: Chiroptera | July 29, 2011 9:14 AM

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Does this mean that some of these wingers may actual have begun to realize that 'cutting government spending'= 'increase unemployment'?

No, of course not, unless it's their own jobs. Government should be no larger than the size it takes to employ me.'

Posted by: longstreet63 | July 29, 2011 9:15 AM

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And 30 years of cutting taxes had nothing to do with it?

On a more serious note, even if the government shrinks, we should still fund NASA, and fund it more. We get so much back for our investment that it's a no-brainer, the problem is that it's not an accomplishment that gets you elected in this country.

Posted by: Dennis N | July 29, 2011 9:21 AM

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SSDD. How often have we seen politicians say things like: Federal spending is a tragic waste that puts an unfair burden on you and your family, and I’m happy to announce I’ve helped secure millions of it for our state.

Posted by: Abby Normal | July 29, 2011 9:25 AM

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Except it was Bush -- from Texas -- who decided to end the shuttle program.

I would presume he already knows that. Perry 's statement is weasel- worded just enough so that we don't know for sure what the hell he's specifically talking about.

Posted by: 386sx | July 29, 2011 9:28 AM

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Republicans have become quite adept at dodging all the steaming piles of elephant shit left behind by W. Coupled with the chutzpah to scream: "Look at all this shit the mouse just put here!"

Posted by: Fifth Dentist | July 29, 2011 9:52 AM

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Except it was Bush -- from Texas -- who decided to end the shuttle program.

And if Obama had done something to reverse that Perry would probably be first in line to claim that it was yet another example of Obama's socialist policy and a waste on the economy.

Posted by: Jeremy Shaffer | July 29, 2011 9:56 AM

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GOP mantra: Its only welfare when the money goes to thee, not me.

Posted by: Larry | July 29, 2011 9:58 AM

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We should be focusing on where the real significant waste is: NPR and Planned Parenthood.

We're making progress toward that. We did manage to get rid of that vast sinkhole of taxpayers' money, ACORN.

Posted by: James Hanley | July 29, 2011 11:17 AM

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"that in the (very, very) long run, the only hope for the survival of humanity is escaping Earth. That might be tricky to achieve with only unmanned spaceflight."

How about womanned spaceflight?

Posted by: Wow | July 29, 2011 11:20 AM

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Once again, one man's pork is another district's stimulus spending.

Posted by: Freemage | July 29, 2011 11:25 AM

He's shrinking government and expanding it AT THE SAME TIME!1!!

What makes it possible for him to do this?




AHA!


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