neil degrasse tyson laid several truth bombs on real time with bill maher tonight

Why does the USA take such an interest in playing world police? Your own country is failing and yet you're stuck in a war costing such a stupid amount of money/lives every year, but not willing to spend a little on advancing the human race?
 
AMEN brother, we gots the good lord to give us hope.

No reason to further our intelligence when we gots poor, durab people starving. Lets take dat dare nasa money and add it to the farm subsidy so we can feed the poor. Or add it to more food stamps, some poor folks don't like to eat corn everyday.



OH WAIT, Farm subsidies & welfare are 10x that of what nasa gets. Why spend BILLIONS on a telescope when we can spend TRILLIONS on the poor and get the same results
 
We're talking about billions of dollars...we're already in massive debt, there isnt even a guarantee that anything will even be discovered.
 
We can't even protect our borders, all that is a drop in the bucket compared to what we pay to support Mexicans

These are old research stats so I'm sure the nuraber is at least 5x this now

In 1994, California paid for 74,987 deliveries to illegal alien mothers, at a total cost of $215.2 million (an average of $2,842 per delivery). Illegal alien mothers accounted for 36 percent of all Medi-Cal funded births in California that year."


Illegal aliens cost $10 billion in 2002

A new Center for Immigration Studies report was released in August, 2004 that shows that illegal immigration cost $10 billion in 2002.4 Based on Census Bureau data, the study estimates that householRAB headed by illegal aliens used $10 billion more in government services than they paid in taxes in 2002. These figures are only for the federal government; costs at the state and local level are also likely to be significant. The study also finRAB that if illegals were given amnesty, the fiscal deficit at the federal level would grow to nearly $29 billion. Among the findings:
* Illegal alien householRAB are estimated to use $2,700 a year more in services than they pay in taxes, creating a total fiscal burden of nearly $10.4 billion on the federal budget in 2002.
* Among the largest federal costs: Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).
* If illegal aliens were legalized and began to pay taxes and use services like legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual fiscal deficit at the federal level would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total federal deficit of $29 billion.
* Because many of the costs are due to their U.S.-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth, barring illegals themselves from federal programs will not significantly reduce costs.
* Although they create a net drain on the federal government, the average illegal household pays more than $4,200 a year in federal taxes, for a total of nearly $16 billion.
* However, they impose annual costs of more than $26.3 billion, or about $6,950 per illegal household.
* About 43 percent, or $7 billion, of the federal taxes illegals pay go to Social Security and Medicare.
 
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