Elon Musk's 'crazy' plan to rip $2T out of America

He is obsessed with going to an inhospitable desert planet that could never support human life without substantial depletion of natural resources here on Earth. Just to send supplies necessary for human life to Mars would extract enormous environmental, financial costs here on Earth.

Instead of this obsession about Mars, what could be called an empty Minecraft world, why don't we work on our own environment here on Earth, first? There's no logical argument I've seen that going to Mars would somehow help diversify humanity's risk here on Earth. In fact, it's rather the opposite -- every time we launch a giant rocket, huge environmental tolls are taken. And those are real costs, born today. We have a finite amount of resources to burn before the planet is made uninhabitable.

If the _Telegraph_, which supported Liz Truss (you may remember her as the prime minister who lasted all of 50 days, brought down by a proposed budget whose mere existence on paper caused a financial crisis), thinks that your economic plans are a bit extreme, well…

This article about a 2T reduction in the US budget doesn't mention Congress once.

Of all the articles I've seen entertaining this absurdity only two mentioned the obvious:

* Excluding entitlement programs and defense, stuff promised off limits, that's the entire rest of the USA budget. So it makes zero sense on face value.

* Good luck getting congress to pass that budget. Oh, did we all collectively forget what branches do what?!