It follows a "plan" Obama has followed since he entered the Oval Office. He is funding social programs, unions, and enlarging the Federal employee rolls while cutting all systems that have made this Country strong. Defense Secretary Robert Gates previously announced sweeping cuts and a significant shift in priorities for next year’s defense budget, with more money for servicemembers and federal employees but less for some major defense contractors.The defense contractors make the weapons that the military needs to defend us!

Calling his plan a “reform budget,” Gates said he would eliminate the $11 billion VH-71 Presidential Helicopter program, end production of the F-22 Raptor at 187 aircraft, negotiate less expansive ways to build three DDG-1000 destroyers and drop the $87 billion vehicle portion of the Army’s Future Combat Systems program.This while Russia is making large numbers of a plane that looks a lot like the F-22!

The scraping of the space program is just one more of Obama's actions that weaken the USA as is advocated by the Leftists who helped put the Democrats in control of Congress and the White House. Hopefully, this will change next Novemeber before the Dems. make this a third rate power!

Folks, we have a flat out Traitor in the White House. Space will be militarized by the Chinese and we'll be standing around looking up.

The previous commenters have got it nailed. Obama is systematically dismantling anything that has any chance of strengthening America or giving Americans something to be proud of. Meanwhile, he's cranking up anything that leads to greater dependency, bigger government, more expensive programs, more massive entitlements, expanded Socialism.

In short, Obama supports failure and wrong while opposing right and successful. He wants a weaker America because to him that's simple justice for the rest of the world. For the first time other countries will be able to compete "fairly" with the United States. The fact that imaginary fairness comes at the price of greatly curtailed prosperity for 300 million Americans means nothing to Obama.

When are Americans going to draw their line in the sand, stand up and declare this anti-American radical OUT OF BUSINESS and install a fiscally responsibly government in his place?

It is a fact that you can not find an Enumerated Power in the US Constitution that allows federal funds for NASA. The closest I can come is under the guise of Defense, but NASA is not a defense agency, and has experienced "mission creep" into such things as weather data collection.

Directed to Charles Krauthammer re his 12 Feb 10 column entitled: Space exporations: an open and shut case: I am a 78 year old retired attorney,a Christian, born, educated and employed throughout my career in the State of Florida, served my country during the Korean War period and feel I am still in reasonably good health and of reasonably good intelligence, but I have a question: Why is it that you or none of the other pundits or anyone else has not connected the dots between Obema and Saul D. Olinsky. I have read some of his phamplets as well as his book "Rules for Radicals, a realistic primer for realistic radicals" etc .and find almost on every page an explantion on WHAT amd WHY OBAMA is doing what he is doing to our country, for example..... 1. Where OLINSKY said in the dedication portion of his book: ....the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer". 2. In the first chapter entitled "The Purpose, he wrote: WHAT FOLLOWS IS for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Michiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Racicals' is written for the Have=Nots on how to take it away" and so on......If you've been half alive the past year and have at least kept up with what Obama has done, you will see OBAMA on almost every page of Olinsky's book. Charles, what Obama has done (is doing) to America's Space Program (40 miles east of my home) is to destroy a program and in the progress a nation (America) by destroying one of the programx that has made America great! Obama is not a liberal; he is a nihilist or, if you prefer, a progresive Nihilist. They work from the "Inside"to destroy a program, a venture, a nation,a democratic capitalist nation, etc. and then as Olisky said above, replace it with a form of govement that it should be, a socialistic or communistic form of government. BUT FIRST YOU MUST DESTROY WHAT YOU WANT TO REPLACE. Can you think of a better method of destruction of that than Bankruptcy!!?? WHY IS IT THAT NO ONE HAS CONNECTED THE DOTS?~ Charles, I would appreciate your response to me personally or in one of your columns.

WELL SAID! A HEART OF THE ISSUE.