‘Fiscal Conservative’ Richard Shelby Forces NASA To Spend $1.4 Million A Day

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‘Fiscal Conservative’ Richard Shelby Forces NASA To Spend $1.4 Million A Day On Program It Doesn’t Want
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/24/richard-shelby-nasa-program/

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) is a “self-professed fiscal conservative” who often rails against government spending and the supposed fiscally imprudent policies of his progressive opponents. He recently put out a statement that said, “Washington must put its fiscal house in order. American taxpayers are rightly infuriated by the federal government’s disregard for the same economic principles that govern every household and business budget.”

Yet when it comes to pork barrel spending for his home state, he is willing to go to extraordinary lengths to waste taxpayers’ money. The Chicago Tribune reports today that a provision Shelby inserted into the 2010 budget that has survived both recent continuing resolutions is costing taxpayers more than a million dollars every single day. The “Shelby provision,” as it is called, forces NASA to spend $1.4 million daily on the Constellation moon program, which it already canceled and doesn’t even want:

Congress has again failed to rid a temporary spending bill of language forcing NASA to waste $1.4 million a day on its defunct Constellation moon program.

This so-called “Shelby provision” — named for U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, who inserted it into the 2010 budget — is expected to cost NASA roughly $29 million during the three-week budget extension through April 8. It has already cost the agency nearly $250 million since Oct. 1

[arcane1]

1. Never has a "household" reduced its debt by reducing its income

Shelby is a fool.

Actually, it's more likely he doesn't believe his own bs, and those who do are the fools.

[Zoeisright]

2. Exactly.

And yes, he's a fool. As are all repukes.

[Angry Dragon]

3. As long as it is his provision, the taxpayers should make him pay for the

waste of the money or he can strip it out of the bill.
Time to hold these politicians responsible for the money they waste.
They have no problem telling everyone else how they are paid too much, waste money.
Time to hold them to the same standards that they want to hold everyone else.

Tired of these asses

[Scuba]

4. But no money for impoverished children. n/t

[TheKentuckian]

5. Dumbass, greedy Dick backing into the right thing for fucked up reasons.

NASA needs many times it's shitty pittance. Cutting NASA funding only surpasses shoddily funding NASA in suicidal refusal to invest and discover.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Whoever wrote this article doesn't understand NASA or the basic underlying issues.

I'd like to see a better source, honestly, than someone who refers to the "Ares I Shuttle Program" :shrug: Dude clearly doesn't know dick about what he's talking about.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Richard "We've got Osama on the Run" Shelby?