"Mountain" of space fraud.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)

In support of Steve Bonta's point about the wastefulness of the space program in the Last Word column of the February 9 issue:

* These huge expenditures are obviously part of the plan to bankrupt the country by throwing money down a bottomless well. Bush has lately taken this to a new level, on top of his already mind-boggling deficit increases.

* According to the infamous "Report from Iron Mountain," space research is positively regarded by these elite planners as a "substitute for the function of war." On page 62 of the "Report," favorable reference is made to "largely unattainable goals," and the space program is "viewed as the nearest modern equivalent yet devised to the pyramid-building, and similar ritualistic enterprises, of ancient societies." It is further acknowledged that "current programs are absurdly and obviously disproportionate, in the relationship of the knowledge sought to the expenditures committed." And all of these are arguments in favor of expansion!

* As I have read elsewhere, civilian applications of space-based technological developments are touted as one of the "side benefits" of the ...