Requiem for an Era

I sit here remembering watching the first lunar landing. Since then, the launching of deep space satellites and telescopes has been about all the good NASA has done. No disrespect to our brave astronauts intended. They have done good works.
However, we, as a nation and President Obama (ever notice how it was President Bush and now it's Obama?) have had to make hard choices in recent years (that others turned a blind eye to) due to the deficit raising it's ugly head and even larger this time. In prior administrations they acted like they were handed a blank check and told "Go have fun."

Seriously, don't we have enough things wrong with America that should be fixed? Before we take over and populate some other planet, where only the elite receive a decent education(hmmm sound familiar)? Where ground level and in the sun is the worst place for a human being to be and the rich build towers in praise of themselves and put up a boundary between we "less fortunate" people and themselves, while we fry and gasp in the yellow air?

NASA, the dream, will never die from the hearts of Americans and will rise again as the phoenix from the ashes. For now, let's focus on Earth.