US Will Give More Money To NASA, Finally

From page 2 of the article linked to in the earlier post:

The NASA space agency, a priority of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, found a last minute boost to $16.2 billion, an increase of $822 million over last year's levels.

This is great! NASA's programs actually put out ten times as much money as they take in. In other words; give NASA one dollar, you get ten dollars back (over some time. This compensates for inflation, also). This is due to the incredibly technological inventiveness of NASA. Not only did NASA invent space pens (they can write upside-down. We decided to outdo the Russian space agency, which used pencils), Velcro, and Tang; they also made tons of computer developments and revolutionized communication. Without NASA, there would be no cell phones or satellite TV, and cable TV would be far more expensive, because cable TV is only distributed locally by cable – it is broadcast to distributors by satellite.
This money will help Bush's 'send men to Mars' project, and all of science in the process. When science is helped, American industries have many new products to make, and the world has a lot of American stuff to buy.