Honoring JFK by investing in Space, and Serving Country

"WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON" ARE MY FAVORITE WORDS OF John F Kennedy. Very bold and risky, those words. No one had any idea how to go to the moon. Profound words, nonetheless. Plus, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." On the day of the first moon landing, July 20, 1969, everybody in the world watched on television, amazed, and I thought about JFK, and how proud he would have been. it seems so obvious to thinking people that all the incredible amount of money and effort we put into military weapons could be invested in space exploration, and the economic pay off would be far better. Many of the same corporations which benefit from military spending could probably manufacture the space exploration hardware, and do just as well. And as we all know, in America, if the corporations aren't making maoney, nobody is making money. Ask what you can do for your country, Maybe the baby boomers could work longer, retire later, volunteer more, and receive slightly less social security benefits. Equally cool would it be if a few of our millions of fellow Americas currently receiving unemployment or disability payments could become employed. Disability insurance has become unemployment insurance. The younger folks? You name it. The military is always a good option, if only becdause of the help you get with education and career. Whether the United States can afford to keep doing this, maintaining an outrageously expensive military, is another question. If the United States cut its military power in half, it would still be able to destroy every country in the world, and the world itself, several hundred times. The U.S. military would be able to destroy the entire solar system. So why not divert a bit of military money, just a bit, into space exploration and development? Any good scientist at NASA will tell you, space travel is far cheaper than weapons, and yields far more economic advantages. Any good American will encourage the U.S. government to bear this in mind.