Waterlogged Mars, Wired Boeing, Gambling Branson, Banned iTunes, Stun Gunner, $155M House: News Briefs

2. RE: Waterlogged Mars, Wired Boeing, Gambling Branson, Banned iTunes, Stun Gunner, $155M House: News Briefs
I say spend the money on space exploration, and the homeless be damned. We already spend a fortune on them and in most cases it's wasted. The actual number of homeless is the merest fraction of the numbers the professional poverty pimps promulgate with their accomplices in the media, and most of them got that way due to their own poor choices.

1. RE: Waterlogged Mars
Why is it our government officials can spend billions of dollars on the ability to find water on Mars, but they can't spend the same amount to build homeless shelters, or food banks, or to fix the welfare system, or to create more jobs? I agree with technological advancements to enhance our knowledge of the universe, but when we can't take care of our own country, it's hard to give a good argument to warrant billions of dollars being spent on another planet. We already have the assets to improve the standard of life for the MILLIONS of people living below or close to the poverty line, but instead we wait for a place to live to be built on another planet so the richest of the rich can simply move off of the planet "infested" by the poor, when we could have fixed that problem years ago.

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