Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there’s going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases,” Bernanke told the House Financial Services Committee. “I hope that Congress will look at that and figure out ways to achieve the same long-run fiscal improvement without having it all happen at one date
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NASA has spun off over 1,650 technologies since 1976, and NASA license fees paid go straight into the US treasury.
With the Shuttle retirement, the United States has no active ability to launch astronauts into space and must pay Russia over $60 million a seat to get our people to the space station.
NASA recently put off a key weather satellite launch, risking the first “coverage gap” in our forecast abilities since the 1960s.
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