This week, President Obama warned America that we were facing another “Sputnik moment,” reflecting back on the time in the Eisenhower Administration when America had to decide if it was up to funding the gazillions in taxpayer dollars to develop a space program.If you’ve watched “The Right Stuff,” you have seen the political and scientific challenges being faced in that era.America reacted to the Commies having a satellite overhead, frankly, because we didn’t want to get nuked from space.It was the Mercury 7 Astronauts who got us excited about space exploration. Sure, people got wound up about science. These World War II vets were having kids by the boat-load and they wanted them to grow up and have the great jobs that science was promising.So, how’s that working out?We have debt — national and private — that was UNDREAMED OF when Sputnik flew over.Americans are seeing their homes foreclosed upon at a rate that was much more fitting to the Great Depression than the Space Race.Job growth is at a standstill, and that is only because our pundits insist on county a lost full-time, insurance-paid, livable wage job as equivalent to a found part-time, no-benefits, minimum wage position.