Source:  Cain: God persuaded me to run for president – USATODAY.com.

Looking at the source article you might be expecting me to talk about how God is involved in politics but I won’t go there. God has much more sense than to get involved in the kind of stuff that is going around today. Instead I am going to talk about government spending….

Here are some words from the reference article:

During his speech, Cain also criticized President Barack Obama for canceling the space shuttle program — a decision actually made by President George W. Bush— as NASA shifts its focus on travel farther from Earth’s orbit.

“I can tell you that as president of the United States, we are not going to bum a ride to outer space with Russia,” Cain said to loud applause. “We’re going to regain our rightful place in terms of technology, space technology.” Cain was talking about U.S. plans, now that the space shuttle is retired, to use Russian rockets to send astronauts to the International Space Station. In the meantime, NASA is focused on explorations deeper in space. It was Bush who decided in 2004 to retire the space shuttle program.

The Republican president still supported sending astronauts to the moon and Mars. Obama, once in office, dropped the goal of a moon mission. Instead, NASA has plans to build a giant rocket capable of sending astronauts to an asteroid and eventually Mars. It wants to outsource to private companies the task of ferrying astronauts and cargo to the space station — a job previously performed by the space shuttle.

The flip flops by the Republican presidential candidates never ceases to amaze me. Here is Mr. Cain blaming President Obama for shutting down the Shuttle program when in reality Mr. Bush did that.  It seems Herman wants to re-institute the government run shuttle program. I think he may really just be trying to change the subject but what do I know (ha). President Obama, at least according to this article, wants to leave the space orbit things to the private sector and is getting hit by the Republicans for that fact!  These are the same guys who want to shut down pretty much all of the federal government and leave everything up to the private sector??  It seems they should be at least admitting that the President “finally” got something right in letting the private sector do its miraculous job.  Instead they are hitting him for something that they were for before the President did it.  That surely tells us something about the current political environment.

So I guess one of the first things Mr. Cain is going to do when he becomes president is to start up a massive new government spending program to put us back into the space race. Go figure….

But what do I know….