NASA,
Creating Jobs
By: Tanner Olsen
While addressing the public in
Dover, New Hampshire in July of 2015, Hilary Clinton stated that she was in
favor of the space program. She advocated that we need a higher push for space
exploration and that a push in the program would help create more jobs and in
the long run bring more money into our economy. Clinton further stated that it
was the duty of the government to provide funding and not the duty of private
companies. She did not however give a statement on how much these private
companies would support and provide for NASA. During her address she stated
“There’s a lot for us to keep learning…Let’s not back off now.” We can easily
see through her opinion that she is pushing towards exploration and has a
desire to move forward in the achievement of sending people to mars. She
further stated “My goal is to advance our ability to make human exploration of
Mars a reality.” Her stand is aligned with the Democratic party; in that they
are looking for new ways to improve the space program and they are in full
support of its upbringing. Democrats are always looking for and supporting new
missions into space.
This blog is to show everyone that
America’s role in the space program is important and vital to our country. It is
to show how Clinton’s stand on this issue is supporting to her election
campaign. It is also to show that through the space program the U.S. would benefit
greatly in its economy.
Clinton made a stand on the space
program about President Kennedy and his influence on the space program and how
over the years that followed there were many discoveries made about space
travel. They created jobs and had a positive influence in the economy. Clinton
stresses that as President she would push for growth and expansion in the space
program and that through our efforts the economy will soar and the education
success rate will increase. She uses the international space station as a model
that through collaboration with other countries we can develop better
relationships and agreements. As we push towards a better space program our
trades and business relations would take an enormous rise and the U.S. would
gain multiple benefits. Americans have always taken huge risks and made
gigantic leaps of faith and this creates pillars that this country is built
upon. If we are no longer willing to take a leap and make a stand then we can
no longer have great innovations or achievements. If we push for innovation and
build on progress it will lead us to affordable new space initiatives. We must
have more of an influence in the space program as we focus on new discoveries,
self-defense, and the future of our country. Clinton desires to work in
communion with congress to provide leadership, affordable funding, and support
to NASA in order to create jobs and to make advancements while staying under
budget.
Clinton’s main goal is to make life
on Mars achievable and to speed up the rate at which we are achieving this
goal. Future funding cuts would lead to more job loss as different organizations
and committees would have to reevaluate and cut back on other jobs causing the
loss of jobs for certain departments. This is the opposite of the goal of the
U.S. right now. We should be advocating job production and not job reduction.
Because of government funding cuts all of the plans that President Bush set
into place were abolished. We had plans that by 2020 we would have Americans
living on the moon and quite possibly only a few years later living on mars. As
cuts have been made it has caused buffers in our trade and business with other
countries. We lost many of our ties to Russia and China since we no longer had
need of their services. Since we cut the funding other nations have seen it as
a source of weakness and saying that since we cut our funding our self-defense
sector was greatly damaged. There have been claims that we are no longer
powerful enough to defend ourselves since our advances in space are so far
behind other countries and that soon we will not be able to watch our own
backs.
I believe that Hilary Clinton has
some truth to her words in that we have declined greatly in our ambition to be
the best as a country. She gives good points about how if we increased our
interest in the space program again we would be greatly benefitted with jobs
and an increase in the nation’s income. If we aspire to be something great in
this Country, we must make the necessary changes and return to the same
motivation that we had from President Kennedy. It is our responsibility to make
this country great again but if we do nothing to improve then we are just
shooting ourselves in the foot. Jobs are important in this country and without
the space program we lose so many opportunities.
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