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Foxnews.com, type in your salary. here we use $50,000, because that is the median, the chart will show what portion of that pork project is paid for by your tax bracket, 18 percent, and then it calculates how much you pay individually for the program, in this case, about two bucks for a person in that wage bracket and more than 56 for a top wage earner. go to the website and you can also vote there, and basically say do you think this is a wise use of your money. some of the numbers may not se...

Nitrogen tapg. problem is not putting the astronauts in dame, but if it isnt fixed in the next few days, nasa could be forced to turn off some of the stations electronics. jon: the first man to walk on the moon slamming the obama administrations plans for the future of nasa just one day before the president visits florida to deliver a space policy speech. neil armstrong and fellow astronauts signing an open letter criticizing the decision to scrap nasas program that would have sent americans bac...

Now, and yet we put thousands upon thousands of dedicated people to do the job to put us into space. and if the program was never designed to support other businesses or industries, and yet the thousands of spin-offs with the technology improvements have helped companies that are, that have no interest or no involvement in be space. jon: in this letter to the president, you warn that america is likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity without an active program to launch humans into sp...

Under right now, defend your position. >> yes, i think its shortsighted because weve spent over 6-7 billion dollars in trying to get the constellation program going can. now, i understand that the president is saying, okay, build the arecent capsule and then well go out to commercial interests and let them build a booster to put that capsule up into space to support the space station. but they dont realize that by doing that that the people who will build the booster will be new entrepreneurs, t...

Jon: obviously, you were part of americas successful moon program, apollo, back in the 60s and 70s, part of that apollo 13 crew that had that enormous problem in space and was able to the overcome it and get back to earth safely. you know the feeling among some americans. weve been there to the moon, been there, done that. maybe, they say, this is a program that could go by the boards. >> well, i dont think they understand the real value of the, of the program and the sort of the other aspects. ...

Jane: a watchdog group is criticizing the foreclosure program, the congressional oversight panel says it will only assist a quarter of the troubled homeowners it was targeted to help. janice will explain. >> reporter: the panel is basically saying the treasury department is simply lagging behind this crisis. think about this statistic, for every one family helped by this program last year, ten families lost their homes, so although we have seen the economy improve, this crisis is still very, ver...

Doesnt indicate a coverup. jane: would those officers, do they face charges potentially? >> oh yes, theres no question they face internal charges and they certainly could face criminal charges. jane: what would they be? >> criminal charges? you know, there may be some federal violations that im not as familiar with. as far as state violations, i dont know, thats going to be up to the states attorneys office. jane: the feds have been looking into this, saying theres a potential here for civil rig...

So it doesnt matter who controlled congress because you still can get as much pork as you want. and over three years, get this, over three years thad cochran has sent $2 billion in earmarks back to his state. jane: well see what senator cochran has to say. some members have said in past years im just doing good work for the people in my home district. david williams, thank you. get more on the story at foxnews.com, see how your senator voted on the earmark wan. you can just click on our home pag...

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