Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s next major initiative should be to reduce the voting age to 11 – he has already captured prepubescent imaginations across the nation with his announcement that by the end of his second term, the United States’ will have a permanent American lunar colony.
Speaking to voters on the economically depressed “Space Coast” of Florida, Gingrich promised to reinvigorate the American space exploration program. He promised to breathe new life into near Earth exploration and tourism, create a permanent colony on the moon and go to Mars by 2020.
Gingrich promised that once there are 13,000 Americans living on the moon, he would introduce a “Northwest Ordinance” so that they could petition for statehood – the state of “Newtizona.” How’s that for “grandiose?”
Conservatives wary of major government spending initiatives have already balked at this idea – had it come from the imagination-bereft former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, these voices of opposition may have been slightly less spirited. Gingrich promised a $10 billion tax free prize to increase incentives to overcome engineering hurdles presently holding back lunar and Martian exploration.
Gingrich did not share his plans for how to pay for these ventures, but it’s entirely possible that he thinks the promise of “moon mining” will pay for itself. Texas Rep. Ron Paul has yet to respond, but it is likely that he will be unable to find lunar colonies anywhere in the Constitution.
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