Experts say Gingrich moon base dreams not lunacy

Great idea. Amazing in fact.

Can't afford it though. The US is bankrupt and digging deeper towards complete insolvency.

Spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, spend is all the government knows how to do.

Just what we need to be talking about. Newt is nuts.

he'll pay for it by cutting safety net programs and college grants.
the masses will starve to death.
and he will sell "moon-condos" for 2 billion each.

I guess you guys haven't read the article, or heard Newt discuss the issue.

He's proposing a 5% government stake, with 95% coming from private investment.

So it may not be lunacy.

Unlike Newt's candidate....

Wow, I finally found something I agree with Newt on.

The lunatic is on the grass...
Is there any grass on the moon.?

A Nnoyed wrote:

Great idea. Amazing in fact.
Can't afford it though. The US is bankrupt and digging deeper towards complete insolvency.
Spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, spend is all the government knows how to do.

US had Bailout UK2much since Church Hill of England!!! dis space UK wil marry and wear EU ropewear ;-000

BandMaster wrote:

Just what we need to be talking about. Newt is nuts.

New-tea+ginger!! trying is help yo rich heallink processea ;)

WeTheSheeple wrote:

Wow, I finally found something I agree with Newt on.

John Kerry, Boston.com wil giv you free new-t+ginger enrich for yo healllink..don't get 2much Tuna Turner CNN ;-00

Chicago Guy wrote:

I guess you guys haven't read the article, or heard Newt discuss the issue.
He's proposing a 5% government stake, with 95% coming from private investment.
So it may not be lunacy.
Unlike Newt's candidate....

cain"t read the Topixyprogramma!! moon dream @UN Kim-young-mooooney.com/UN ;)

Kool.
We all get along so well and are so peaceful on this planet, we need to duplicate the amazing results on the moon and Mars to mine & pollute & colonize. Can't wait till China & Russia stake a claim & build bases & mine on the moon too....we do have working laser weapons...right? So, what's the problem?

Private business in bed with the gov can get gov grants & multi billion $$$ contracts (from tax money) to build bases for the (trained armed forces) selected few to inhabit & protect.

Now why didn't anyone think of this before? Rallied the country in the 60's. Great diversion. What an ingenious plan and foresight.
(rofl)

BandMaster wrote:

Just what we need to be talking about. Newt is nuts.

* NASA made plans back in 09/2005 to return to the Moon by 2018, Bush touted the same in 01/2004. Gingrich is only mimicking their dream and setting another U.S. goal. An achievement that would serve to further scientific advancements and benefit the military as well.

anneutral wrote:

he'll pay for it by cutting safety net programs and college grants.
the masses will starve to death.
and he will sell "moon-condos" for 2 billion each.

I guess you missed the part where private investments/ors would supply the majority of the financing for the future space program. Dammed sure we really need to spending large amounts of monies studying a shrimp on a treadmill as well as a multitude of other pork barrel projects of the kind, right.

Stop Crime In America wrote:

Newt is a lying pig . Newt knows there are 7000 Space Center workers unemployed . Jews are destroying America . After Ted Kennedy died this pig scum hypocrite Newt converted to Catholic . This scum bends just like rubber . This freak is very dangerous . And so are the Jews at WALT DISNEY COMPANY !

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone! Hiel Hitler, Jack-Wadd! It's actually hate mongers like you that shred and tatter the fabric of civilizations.

Chicago Guy wrote:

He's proposing a 5% government stake, with 95% coming from private investment.

Marvelous! Then Newt won't need to be President to see this through.

Of course I'd like him to be the Republican nominee. Just not President.

Man oh man, Newt _really_ wants to get rid of his first two wives.

(Is the first one dead? I forget. But burial plots are getting expensive.)

Magic UndergarMitt wrote:

Man oh man, Newt _really_ wants to get rid of his first two wives.
(Is the first one dead? I forget. But burial plots are getting expensive.)

Is Callista #3 or #4?

The point is Gingrich talks about how Obama has wasted money and then he says we should build a base on the moon...Talk about a huge waste....Dont gte me wrong either oblammy is a huge waste also....But we need REAL conservative idea,s and ideals to turn this nation around....

RON PAUL 2012!!!!!!!!!!

Paul Revere wrote:

<quoted text> * NASA made plans back in 09/2005 to return to the Moon by 2018, Bush touted the same in 01/2004. Gingrich is only mimicking their dream and setting another U.S. goal. An achievement that would serve to further scientific advancements and benefit the military as well.

And would cost hundreds of billions if not trillions and all of which would be added to the national debt......As a conservative I say NO F-ING WAY!!!!!!!!!

RON PAUL 2012!!!!!!!!! REAL CONSERVATIVE..........

Let us understand that it would be much cheaper in the long run to build our spaceships, space factories, and space farm or parts thereof on the moon. With 1/6 the gravity of Terra the costs would be overwhelmingly cheaper. We must move into space to survive has a people. The entire STS program only cost $192 billion. That's 30 years of a program that changed the way we live forever. Without the space program most everything we now take for granted would not exist.