40th Anniversary of Moon Landing: First Steps In Long March Towards Socialism?

[maxrandb]

Thought this was appropriate, considering the celebrations of the United States first mission to the moon.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200907200038

"You can imagine the lede: "Today marks 40 years since the humankind first set foot on the moon, one of the most dramatic examples to date of just how badly the federal government mismanages everything it touches."

Of course, nobody would dream of reporting that story. Instead, the Apollo Project, which culminated in the 1969 moon landing, is universally viewed as having been one of the most significant and successful ventures our nation has ever undertaken. It was also initiated at the behest of President John F. Kennedy, and was the work of a federal agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). And it was extremely expensive, costing more than $150 billion dollars when adjusted for inflation, and employed "400,000 Americans and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities."

Today, Fox News headlined its moon landing coverage by declaring 1969 to have been "The Year that Changed America." And yet, at the same time, the conservative media is doing whatever it can to destroy the very notion that the federal government should play a role in reforming the American healthcare system – or a role in anything else, for that matter. Our government, we are told, is corrupt, wasteful, and incompetent. Government bureaucrats can't do anything right. And the sums of money they want to spend are unjustifiable, dooming us to suffer under a perpetual mountain of debt.

So, it begs the question: when will Fox News declare the Apollo Project to have been a pork barrel-ridden boondoggle? When will Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon be seen not as a symbol of our country's ability to overcome all odds, but instead as the first steps on our long march towards dreaded socialism?"

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It's amazing how the "dumbing down" of America has progressed ever since the election of St. Ronnie.

Hell, Rush Limbaugh can declare the Apollo mission as an example of "America's rugged individualism", and his listeners suck it up like crack.

[DarthPortnoy]

1. False FLag Operation

The moon landing was just another in the long line of false flag operations conducted by the US Government to keep the Military in business. There is ample evidence that it was all created in a hollywood style soundstage. All you have to do is Google it to find the THOUSANDS of web site that will debunk this.

Ask yourself this..if we could go to the moon 40 years ago, why don't we do so today? The answer is, we didn't and we can't.

Open you mind and see what they don't want you to see. Look beyond the headlines that the corporate media is force feeding you.

President Obama is making strides to reduce the military industrial corporations influence on this planet. By eliminating false technology like missle shields and reducing the threat of nuclear war and shrinking our status as a "superpower", we are reducing the threat that we've had over developing nations all over the globe.

Wouldn't it be nice to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars we spend on the shame that is NASA on helping our poor neighboring countries? Think about it....

[scheming daemons]

2. Wow.... cookoo for cocopuffs, aren't we?

:crazy:

The earth is flat too.

[HopeHoops]

3. No, it is NOT flat.

The Earth is shaped like a burrito. Everyone should know that by now.

[maxrandb]

4. I meant this to be an illustration of how idiotic

the political discourse, especially the charge of "socialism", has become in this country.

Didn't know we'd get into a discussion about the space conspiracy???

Is this DU or Mythbusters?