The Road To Less, Down & Failure For All Americans

From Challenge To Socialism

	In October, 1957 the USSR placed the first man-made satellite in orbit around the earth. It was 23 inches in diameter and weighed about 3,000 pounds. It served to allow measurement of the earth's atmospheric density, and provided for analysis of the ionosphere & radio signal dispersion. It was a first -- The First.
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America awoke from complacency and apathy to accept the challenge.
President Eisenhower quickly established the structure to ensure that the USA would enter the race into space. Scientists were assembled, projects identified, plans made, and the USA was working to surpass the USSR to space.
In November, 1957, the first animal, a dog, was launched into space by the USSR.
In April, 1961, the first man was launched into space by the USSR.

Science & Military Values
The upper earth's atmosphere and beyond could now be understood as the new frontier. This frontier was readily understood to be of great strategic and tactical military value. The nation that controlled these frontiers could threaten, research, and advance beyond all its earth-bound competitors.
The value of being high above is a straightforward concept understood over thousands of years of warfare. The value of having a laboratory with near-weightlessness and cleanliness started to be understood as being a tool to support production of chemical, biological, and mechanical elements that are difficult or impossible to do on earth. The benefits derived from increased knowledge of atomic aspects of the universe could barely be imagined.
As in all learning experiences, the more that is learned the more that can be learned.

Accepting The Challenge
Sputnik had become the focus of an ongoing cultural, technological, and ideological rivalry between the USA the the USSR. Space exploration provided the side benefits of societal morale boosting, and civilian and military applications of the developed space technology.
The several firsts accomplished by the USSR demonstrated that it was serious about accomplishing more strategic firsts. Those additional firsts could lead to dominance by the USSR in ways that mankind was correctly concerned about.

The Race
Immediately following President Eisenhower's call to action, scientists, educators, and relevant units of the US government began working in a coordinated fashion to build a winning space program.
In 1958, the US Congress passed legislation creating NASA. Congress passed the National Defense Education Act. This was the broadest federally-sponsored education program in US history. This education bill authorized expenditures of more than $1 billion for a full set of advances including school construction, fellowships, and loans meant to encourage promising students to seek advanced education, advancements for vocational education to meet anticipated manpower needs, and several supportive programs.
President Kennedy, in 1961, announced that the USA, "should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." Kennedy assumed that he would be in office until January, 1969....

Americans perceived the challenge and supported the USA's needs. Worthy students accepted the challenge. As a high school freshman in 1958, this writer grabbed the opportunity to study using advanced textbooks that were so fresh from the great minds of their authors that they were delivered every six weeks in over-sized paperback format just in time to barely stay ahead of the students' progress.
These physics and chemistry books were so advanced that when this author entered the University of California, Berkeley in 1962, he experienced a curriculum that was less advanced -- even at Cal, the supposed leader in scientific education. He learned first-hand that Cal was a sham scientific laboratory, but a thriving poisoned laboratory for social and cultural destruction of the USA.

The USA put the first man on the moon in July, 1969.
The US moon program was not motivated by the desire for territorial expansion.
The USA won the space race. Americans demonstrated that they could cooperate when confronted by an outside enemy that posed a serious threat to their survival. Americans understood that the massive investment in time and money would pay off in unforeseen ways.

Progress
All of mankind has benefited in ways too numerous to fully list anywhere. Mankind benefits in the obvious areas, but also in unexpected ways.
Knowledge gained is a benefit. Knowledge gained from the space race and the exploration of space can be extrapolated and used to broaden mankind's knowledge.
Today there are, and tomorrow there will be, new life saving drugs and cures, new products including alloys, lubricants, and substances such as Teflon, that was a direct byproduct of the space race.

Dismantling America
In April of his second year as president, Barack Hussein Obama spoke before a crowd assembled at NASA headquarters. He attempted to justify his termination of America's space program and his idea for its redirection.
The crowd cheered.

Destroying American Ingenuity, American Productivity, & Americans
Today the USA is cursed with a president who neither understands scientific concepts nor has any substantive plan other than to destroy the USA that he despises and believes has been the cause of all that is bad.
Today the USA has a president who openly expresses his mandate to take from those worthy who have achieved success by producing and handing their earnings to those who refuse to work and produce and who are unable to achieve beyond minimal levels. Those who legitimately need assistance he derisively jokes about.
In this president's budget he announced his plan to terminate the USA's plan to reach the moon. He instead contrived some nonsense about how he wants the USA to reach planets and asteroids. Both of these are nebulous goals meant to distract Americans from his dismantling of America's prowess.
Moreover, BO's distractive phony goals would only be attainable by extending the very research and goals -- reaching the moon with all its attendant research -- that he is terminating. He tosses out to Americans the promise to save some relatively few billions of dollars by terminating the moon program that is now in place. He disregards the loss of approximately 23,000 high skill jobs at NASA.
The primarily US-designed and built International Space Station will, under BO's plan, be occupied by Americans only when the USA pays Russia to ride along in its transporters. Current contracts require that the USA pay Russia approximately $50 to $60 million dollars per astronaut per ride.

BO's termination of the USA's existing space program will ensure that Americans and mankind will forever lose the inventions and the opportunity to learn from the discoveries they could otherwise have.

The USA has a president who is determined to -- as he said five days prior to his election -- "fundamentally change the United States of America".
Today Americans will deserve the changes they are starting to perceive and receive if they continue to cheer this traitor.

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