White House rejects petition to build Death Star by Carter Brown

The Obama administration (unfortunately) rejected an official petition calling for the U.S. government to build a Death Star, the fictional planet-destroying space station featured in the "Star Wars" movies. Paul Shawcross reportedly said "The administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon". The White House accepts petitions and responds to the most popular ones. Most of the petitions on the website address weighty policy issues. But in recent weeks, national attention has been drawn to quirky petitions, such as one that supports the minting of a trillion-dollar platinum coin to avoid a debt default if Congress fails to raise the U.S. debt limit next month. The petitioners of the Death Star plan claimed that the creation of the project would create a lot of jobs and increase national security, but the drawback would be the enormous amount of money it would cost to build, especially in a time of great debt when the government is trying to find ways to reduce spending and cut taxes. I thought this article was pretty awesome. I mean.. Who wouldn't want to see an enormous Death Star from a fictional space movie being erected before their eyes and sent into space? Although it's a very fun idea, no one, especially the U.S. has money for this sort of thing. Source: http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/white-house-rejects-petition-to-build-death-star?ocid=ansnews11