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“Congress needs to fully fund the Artemis mission and other NASA programs if the United States is to continue to produce fundamental scientific and technological progress, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stressed repeatedly in testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee on September 30. Opposition to Bridenstine’s statement of scientific and economic fact comes primarily from Democrats and others devoted to the Green New Deal and human devolution. These include first and foremost, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who killed NASA manned space efforts and turned former NASA launch sites into dead zones where weeds predominated.”
From this week’s Feature
A Note To Readers
In these weekly reports we will continue to stress that it is investments in new platforms of productivity (science and infrastructure) that has always been, and will always be, the foundation of an economy based on creating a future for coming generations.
While the day to day political battles, usually, ignore such fundamental questions, only an activated citizenry can ensure that that result can be secured.
The Feature this week reports on NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine’s testimony to Congress last week, in which he presented the future that that mostly useless body must address now.
Also in this week’s report:
The U.S. Drought Monitor this week shows no change from last week, but with a La Nina forecast for the coming months, some are worried that we may be heading into another lengthy drought for the second time in less than a decade.
Next is an update on the wildfire pandemic in California, which has now burned more than 4 million acres.
That is followed by, as the text of the article understates it, “Farm and water groups are expressing disappointment after California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have committed the state to providing 35 percent of the cost of a federal project to fix the crumbling Friant-Kern Canal.”
Meanwhile, the Governor Strikes Again: Following his recent call for banning petroleum-fueled vehicles by 2035 in the state, now Newsom wants to put completely off-limits to any development about one-third of the state.
Under the title, “The Real Economy,” we contrast the collapsing condition of the American people to the “generous” bailouts still going to the biggest Wall Street banks by the Federal Reserve.
Then on the subject of infrastructure, another contrast is seen as the U.S. is mired in a go nowhere paralysis, with a Congress that has rejected the proposal by President Trump for the next stimulus bill for $3 trillion in building infrastructure, yet other nations are moving forward.
This week’s report concludes with the Feature.
