George W. Bush Proposes A Return To The Moon

Iraq and Afghanistan are draining billions of dollars from our nation's coffers and hurricanes Rita and Katrina have caused over $100 billion in damages to the Gulf Coast. So why does our fearless leader propose a return to fiscal sanity?

Does George W. Bush ask the American people to sacrifice and accept an increase in taxes? Does he do away with the tax cuts that favor the wealthy? Does he demand that Congress cut the pork from the highway bill?

No, Bush's great idea is to spend billions of dollars to send humans back to the moon. NASA has outlined a $104 billion plan to put Americans on the moon by 2018. Santa Claus is more of a fiscal conservative than George W. Bush.

The first time we went to the moon was to prove that we were scientifically more advanced than the Evil Empire. But now there is no compelling reason to spend billions of dollars to return to that rock in space.

Forget about going to the moon; how about going to the hurricane-ravaged areas of Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Louisiana? In these times of a never-ending "War on Terrorism" and a plethora of hurricanes, it doesn't make any sense to return to the moon.

Let's forget about trying to prove our technological prowess to the world and, instead, concentrate on showing that we are a compassionate nation by using the billions earmarked for returning to the moon to help the poor and needy.