Curiosity

We have just landed a machine on Mars named, "Curiosity."  I am glad that we are spending money on this project.  As a country, if not as homo sapiens, we need something that keeps a vision of what we can be, and a vision that is even bigger than we are, or at least stretches us as a people.   The cosmos is huge, but it is also our home.  A vision gets us out of our little private world...of shopping!  This is what many leaders are hoping we will do, is shop.  Make the economy grow by buying stuff we don't need.  What a small vision.  I hope Congress comes up with the bucks to keep us exploring space, providing scholarships for scientists, astrogiophyicists, and mathematicians, even in the midst of a recession.  Greed, selfishness, and cheating got us into this recession.  Any lobbyists for outer space?