Spaced out

In the region of Florida the AP calls the Space Coast, hard times are coming. With the end of the program where we pretended to walk on the moon, and visit some "station" somewhere, Cape Canaveral will cut 7,000 jobs, and the restaurants and hotels which had catered to the visitors who came to partake in the fantasy will be closing. The local jobs agency estimates that NASA has infused $1.2 billion into Florida's economy, and that two jobs will be lost for each aerospace job eliminated. Thank you, President Obama.

With the close proximity of Disney World, another amusement park might not be a viable replacement money maker. Might I respectfully suggest legalized prostitution, some of those popular Indian casinos, or a giant pot farm and retail dispensary. Then, Florida will begin to look just like California and parts of western Nevada. . . from where Harry Reid (D-NV) hails.

WE COMMEND the founding fathers, who, without air conditioning, managed to think clearly in the heat of early July. (No parade for me again today.)