Ladies and Gentlemen, we end our broadcast day (almost) with...space exploration?

Yes, you didn't hear wrong. YouTube questioner Nielson wanted to know if there is a candidate who would be willing to make a pledge to send an American to Mars by 2020.

Maybe it's just me, but I was hoping that a dozen years from now our country would be in a much better place financially with a better handle on national debt, improvement in the education system across the country would help solve illiteracy or truancy rates, and all of our troops would be home, any wars over.

Couldn't our money be much better spent working on these things than buying materials for space shuttles? I'm all for the wonder of space travel and expanding our horizons to places literally out of this world, but honestly we need to turn our telescopes in for a while longer and get some stuff straight down here.