"It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights; it's actually nothing more...it's simply a whine. 'I find that offensive,' it has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I'm offended by that,' well so fucking what?"
~Stephen Fry

"No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training...what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
~Socrates

I live by both of these quotes.

Now comes the rant

I am saddened very deeply saddened that they would dare cut money to one of the few things that make this country great. A program that is responsible for many of things that everyone takes for granted. Our next frontier is space. Exploring space will bring untold riches to us as a human race and they dare cut money from a space program that already doesn't have much money to work with. I say cut other stupid programs and give it to the space program. If our space program had a fraction of the money that was spent fighting wars we would already have someone on Mars and be that much more technologically advanced. A strong space program promotes interests in mathematics and the sciences something this country has been lacking as of late. We need to realize our priorities should be in enriching our minds and bodies not our pockets. One of the biggest things that will help us with that is that space program. It is a lot more important than people realize and need to be promoted, protected, and given more money. I understand that there are poor that need to be fed and the unfortunate that need to be helped but the more powerful our minds are and the better technology we produce the less there will be poor and unfortunate people in this country. I love this country but some things can't and should not be cut.
~What is a man who does not try to make the world a better place