The end of the shuttle program is a sure sign of America’s decline.  The politicians can no longer sugar coat the truth.  We have sold out our youth for the short term gain of the few.  Instead of investing in good education, science and technology, and a solid infrastructure, we instead invested in military spending, cooperate tax breaks, and overseas spending.  I am not saying that the shuttle program shouldn’t be canceled, but I just don’t see a great future for NASA or America right now either.  We have become a nation of fat mouth breathers that have lost the ability of original thought and ingenuity. All we care about is the short term bottom line.  Our leaders have failed to invest in America and have left us vastly under-prepared.  The cancellation of the shuttle program with no replacement in sight is just another indicator of our nation’s shortsightedness.  Perhaps we can outsource our space program to the Chinese, to help with the the bottom line, after-all that is what we care about right?

Overall we have no one to blame but ourselves.  We live in a open democracy and have had numerous elections to force change, but we just went with the status quo again and again.