> but we can spend billions on what amounts to a blank check to the aerospace defense industry in the name of "science." Do you really think single-digit billi

> but we can spend billions on what amounts to a blank check to the aerospace defense industry in the name of "science." Do you really think single-digit billions is going to pay for a meaningful increase to teachers' wages, plus feeding students? NASA gets $22B per year - less than $12B of that goes to manned flights. There's 3.1M public school teachers in the US. If you took ALL of that money and gave it all to teachers (which is ridiculous - they're paid by states, not federally) - that amounts to a ~10% raise - and if you count future pensions - it's not even a ~3% raise. You have $0 left over to pay for hungry students. There's also another 3M employees at public schools beside teachers that get nothing... It's almost as if NASA's budget has nothing to do with anything you mentioned.