If you believe...

Thank you, Washington Post for today's editorial, Moon Dreams (washingtonpost.com), which attempts to bring some sanity to the priorities and coverage of this administration's policies.

Fresh from a successful robotic expedition to Mars, Bush now wants to follow in his daddy's footsteps once again by getting the American people to buy the idea that we will all become The Jetsons in a few years. Never mind that this comes at a price more than ten times the cost of the debacle in Iraq that has put America itself in debt at levels that rival those of consumers who answered the post-911 call to spend and then lost their jobs.

Sure, space travel is a fun and sexy idea, but shouldn't we handle the problems we have here on earth before we start creating them on other planets? Or is this the nucleus of a job creation plan--Lunar and Martian outsourcing?