the key to winning next election: mining tax, page-18

Interesting comparison between NASA budget for 2012 or about $19billion and potential cost of NBN at maybe $50billion or even more once the rorting really gets underway.

Who will get the best bang for buck considering the many flow-ons of technology from NASA and space exploration into the commercial sector over the years.

Internet broadband is not something for the government to be running and expanding as their business especially such an extra-ordinarily incpompetent and rort-filled government as this current socialist gillard fiasco we are saddled with...


http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/feb/HQ_11-041_NASA_Budget.html

RELEASE : 11-041


NASA Announces Fiscal Year 2012 Budget


WASHINGTON -- NASA announced Monday an $18.7 billion budget request for fiscal year 2012 that supports a reinvigorated path of innovation, technological development and scientific discovery. The budget supports all elements of NASA's 2010 Authorization Act, which was passed by a strong bipartisan majority of Congress and signed into law by President Obama.