Moon Colonization an Important Issue? Really?

Great discourse on an important subject by robertreich that ends up loosely tied to city planning on the moon of all places:

Newt’s latest idea, for example – to colonize the moon – is typically whacky.

As Reich reminds us, American citizens should not be so flippant as to simply assume a Newt nomination equates to an Obama victory.  Our social and economic future is not something to gamble with – especially with weird speculation about moon colonization.