Looking at the news today I cane across a story of a 10 year old Nicaraguan boy arriving illegally in the USA. There are increasing numbers of children being sent over the border alone in the hope they can get into the USA.
Once in the hands of the border patrol they are taken to secure shelters. They seem to be treated well by the officers. But have a look at the conditions.
This is the richest country in the world. Okay, they don’t like the border crossing. But criminals in the USA have better living conditions than these kids. You cannot tell me it is beyond the ability of the USA to improve these conditions in a day or two. No – but they can afford $3B a year to go to the moon.
It isn’t that I disagree with the next moon mission – I really look forward to it. What bothers me is priorities. In the words of JFK:
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY’S RICE STADIUM MOON SPEECH
And there is the reason these kids are living in such crowded conditions – because they choose not to do the things to fix it.