This is an incredibly short-sighted view by professional Leftists. The first three Apollo flights did not put a man on the moon. But they moved us in that direction. The bottom line is that we, as Americans, should embrace the challenge set in front of us by our president. There is nothing we can t do as a nation if we put our mind to it.
Nothing is impossible.
Furthermore SDI would mean we would need fewer F-22s, air craft carriers, battleships, submarines, and other military hardware. The taxpayer will benefit in the long run. President Kennedy did not listen to the nay-sayers and Doubting Thomases of his time and neither should President Bush. Who knows, in another forty years another president may set forth a new challenge for space exploration, inspired by President Bush as Bush was inspired by Reagan. Yes, we at the Association of Concerned Taxpayers will be the first to say we don t have the technology yet to bring to fruition President Bush s SDI vision.