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Spending decreases, spending increases…
We can’t afford to keep operating a rover that is already on Mars.
NASA’s baseline budget for the year beginning Oct. 1 pulls the plug on the 10-year-old Mars rover Opportunity, newly released details of the agency’s fiscal 2015 spending plan show.
The plan, which requires Congressional approval, also anticipates ending the orbiting Mars Odyssey mission on Sept. 30, 2016.
“There are pressures all over the place,” NASA’s planetary science division director Jim Green said during an advisory council committee teleconference call on Wednesday.
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NASA currently spends about $13 million a year to support Opportunity.
The Army may need to cut its number of brigade combat teams nearly in half to accommodate the Pentagon’s plans to slice the Army’s size to below 450,000 soldiers after 2017.
Gen. John Campbell, the Army’s vice chief of staff and second highest-ranking member, in an interview with The Hill said the service is already planning to make cuts to its combat brigades, basic Army units of 5,000 soldiers that can be deployed and sustain themselves overseas.
Campbell did not say exactly how few active-duty brigades the Army could afford to have with the smaller Army, which is being cut from 510,000 soldiers currently.
What does the austere budget look like?
What is he spending it on? Here is an example… Bailing out insurance companies who would otherwise go belly up due to Obamacare.
ACA risk corridors: Obama’s proposal also includes $5.5 billion to fund a controversial portion of the ACA that creates a temporary pool of money to help insurers that face higher-than-expected costs from enrolling too few young, healthy individuals in coverage through the exchanges (Easley, “Healthwatch,” The Hill, 3/4).
Source: http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=114159
