I don’t know about other people, but I feel that if America is too cheap to spend $300 million to lean about the origins of our solar system well, shame on us. $300 million spread over more than 5 years comes out to be $60 million a year. Cheap! Cheap! Cheap! American looses more than that each year in welfare fraud!

I understand that the chances are really low that a comet might be on a collision course with earth, but if we ever need the information about what makes up a comet, we’ll need it bad. $60 million a year is cheap insurance if it helps protect my kid!