NEWSFLASH: AMERICANS LIKE OUTER SPACE!

McCain and Obama offer their statements about their plans for the space program. (Notice the similarities.)

I've always felt that NASA was one of the less necessary of the governments' expenditures, especially given it's huge cost. It seems like it's primarily a leftover from a Cold War-era effort to "establish the U.S. dominance in science and technology" (from McCain's statement), a good example of government playing the government game rather than doing it's job.

I'd like to see a candidate who promised to cut government spending on things like the space program in order to finance things like fighting poverty, drug research, and fixing the economy.