As I write another big check to the federal government I am wondering who benefits by Artemis, the $4.1 billion “trip around the moon”?
At $250 per visit, $4.1 billion could send 2 million Americans to the dentist for a checkup/exam/cleaning, but that would be socialism. How many “socialist things” could be purchased for the $35 billion “Iranian war of choice” (tacked on to the debt and counting)?
Why not save space adventures for a time when Americans have health care, safe roads and bridges, affordable housing, subsidized child care, clean water, and 21st-century mass transportation? That would be socialism. Is it radical to invest in helping Americans to get ahead and prosper instead of funding endless wars and trips around the moon?
Thomas C. Spallone
Hempfield