Plan B Forum

Q: is there a single Republican who knows the relative distance in traveling between the Earth and Mars vs, say, the moon?

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-0 ... -said.html

Gingrich Said Freddie Mac Could Be Good Model for Mars Travel

By Lorraine Woellert - Dec 1, 2011 9:01 PM PT


Newt Gingrich in 2007 extolled the virtues of Freddie Mac (FMCC), saying he would be “very cautious” about changing the way the mortgage-finance company’s public- private business plan operated.

In an interview placed on Freddie Mac’s website, the Republican presidential candidate said the U.S. government- sponsored enterprise, or GSE, could serve as a guide for rebuilding the hurricane-ravaged Gulf of Mexico, improving health care and funding space exploration. For decades, Freddie Mac collected profits while benefiting from an implicit taxpayer guarantee of its debt,

“I’m convinced that, if NASA were a GSE, we probably would be on Mars today,” Gingrich said in the April 24, 2007, web post.
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yrs,
rubato

Gee, rube, are any democrats "dumb" for their support of FM? Or is it only Republicans? Barney Frank? Is he an idiot?

You jackass.

And does supporting the model form of business mean that he supports everything they ever did?

You asshole.

Supporting the GSE model as a means of financing a mission to Mars? What Democrats have done that?

Way to have a headline disconnected from the content (the author)

Way to have a thread title, opening statement disconnected from the headline and content.