Newt Gingrich phone home…
03 Feb 2012, Posted by Minshu Deng in Backpages, 1 Comments
With the 2012 presidential elections coming up, I think it’s pretty clear whom I want to vote for.
Newt Gingrich.
I mean, the guy wants to build a U.S. colony on the moon, and who doesn’t think that’s just the coolest thing ever?! You don’t have to have wanted to be an astronaut as a kid or dreamed of going to space camp to realize the significance of this proposal.
With a moon colony well established by the end of Gingrich’s second term, the U.S. will have realized its policy to once more return a human to the lunar surface by 2020. If we don’t succeed, we will have failed. We cannot fail to follow through with our policies! If we say we’re going to clean the whole world, well, we’ll just have to give everyone a bottle of Windex and fly them to every corner of the earth!
Like Gingrich, I myself “believe in an America of big ideas and big solutions. I believe if we unleash the American people we will rebuild the American dream.”
For those of you out there who are hindering the rebuilding of the American dream with your doubts, I have this word of advice for you: the Canadian Television Network claims, “Experts say [Gingrich’s] moon base dreams [are] not lunacy”!!!
Forget about unemployment or poverty or education, this is a matter of national security. Do we want the Chinese colonizing the moon before us? Those people are already everywhere! If they make it to space first, we can just forget that we ever had any ambitions. Actually, I’d be impressed if the Chinese decided to drop a few bucks on going to the moon when they have problems of education, poverty, corruption, and environmental crises to deal with within their borders.
Wait, what about when I said to forget about our own unemployment, poverty, and education in this country? Oh, I didn’t mean that. Surprise!
I’m not lying about how my dream job was to work for NASA as an astronaut. I am a space fanatic. Are you going to scold me for not holding fast to my dreams and for being dragged into a system that is keeping America from achieving great things? We can achieve great things.
Right now, creating a moon colony is not one of those.
Gingrich’s idea to create a U.S. moon base is not just crazy, it’s insulting to this country’s citizens who actually live on this planet, live within this country’s borders and pay federal taxes. As a U.S. voter, remember to keep a sense of proportion and priority in making your decision at the polls this year. And, unfortunately this doesn’t always go without saying, actually go vote.





