Go To Space!

Have you been encouraged lately to start your career in science, technology, and mathematics? If you're in North Carolina, perhaps you just haven't been paying attention. Of course, if you're anywhere else in the country, you're just paying for that encouragement.

You see, this past year the North Carolina Legislature, with it's "cut to the bone" budget, managed to give $200,000 to the "NC Space Grant." Just last week the federal government, via NASA, gave another $353,000. The NC Space Grant agency now has over half a million dollars of taxpayer funds to spend.

Space Grant is a program created by Congress to "try to inspire students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics." That's right, without that half million dollars spent every year, no one would study science, technology, or engineering.

Have you seen your tax dollars today?

Posted by: Ogre at 04:03 AM

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