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bemildred

(90,061 posts) Sun Nov 3, 2013, 07:26 PM Nov 2013

We went to the Moon. [View all]

Many times.
NASA did it, the government did it, Democratic Presidents and Congresses did it.
Now, we cannot feed, clothe, school, or find jobs for our own children.
We are in retreat globally on all fronts.
THIS is the fruit of 4 decades of "conservative" economic policies and politics.

Edit: FWIW this is what got me thinking about this, I started thinking back and I realized how much we have lost already:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/114210332#post18

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We went to the Moon. [View all] bemildred Nov 2013 OP

Nasty greedy republicans. we can do it Nov 2013 #1

Nasty greedy corporatists, both Democratic and Republican. woo me with science Nov 2013 #24

We landed on the moon? ForgoTheConsequence Nov 2013 #2

You think maybe it was a conspiracy theory? nt bemildred Nov 2013 #3

We seem to have a Democrat in the White House who is fiscally conservative Cleita Nov 2013 #4

We allowed our resources to be redirected to the very, very top. Arugula Latte Nov 2013 #5

An Empire In Decline... WillyT Nov 2013 #6

That's a good one. bemildred Nov 2013 #7

It has nothing to do with our ability to produce the necessities of the country johnd83 Nov 2013 #8

Then, we bombed it. pintobean Nov 2013 #9

What? When? nt longship Nov 2013 #18

The moon pintobean Nov 2013 #19

Are you kidding me? The LCROSS thing again? longship Nov 2013 #29

Wow pintobean Nov 2013 #30

Well, you said we bombed it. longship Nov 2013 #31

It's been a joke on DU for years. pintobean Nov 2013 #32

I remember that. Just didn't want to see a zombie of it. longship Nov 2013 #33

That meme is a gift which will never, ever stop giving. (nt) Posteritatis Nov 2013 #21

The powers that be have decided that food is not a necessity for 47M Americans jsr Nov 2013 #10

"Now, we cannot ..." Oh, we could, if we wanted to. n/t jtuck004 Nov 2013 #11

I will accept "we don't" as a edit. bemildred Nov 2013 #12

We manage to pay banksters hundreds of billions of dollars to keep them jtuck004 Nov 2013 #14

Yes.."We Went to the Moon!" but, it's been downhill since those Altruistic Days..... KoKo Nov 2013 #13

Mr. B, my US history teacher in High school said empires implode between 200 - 250 years riverbendviewgal Nov 2013 #15

Yes. bemildred Nov 2013 #35

Yes indeed we have lost much azurnoir Nov 2013 #16

1968 or 1969, to pick a year. nt bemildred Nov 2013 #36

We went to the moon and... VPStoltz Nov 2013 #17

Going to the moon is not the problem. HuckleB Nov 2013 #20

I read the post you were ruminating upon... reACTIONary Nov 2013 #22

No, that's not what he thinks. nt bemildred Nov 2013 #37

re: We went to the Moon. allan01 Nov 2013 #23

Don't worry, tax cuts will fix this. krispos42 Nov 2013 #25

If you grew up in that era you remember we went to the moon because of the "missile gap" legcramp Nov 2013 #26

I did. The topic of the OP is the obvious decay in our society since then. bemildred Nov 2013 #38

We should send Rush Limbaugh and friends to the moon, on a one way ticket! Problem solved! JEFF9K Nov 2013 #27

I don't think we have a rocket powerful enough to lift Limbaugh off the ground. n/t totodeinhere Nov 2013 #28

the moon project was funding for the MIC that made all the tech equipment. sorry, poor people nt msongs Nov 2013 #34