Yeah any one can compare the cost benefit analysis of the 900 billion spent on NASA over the last 60 years and compare the 7-10+ trillion spent on the "War on Poverty" over the similar period and clearly the overall societal benefits of NASA's endeavors pale in comparison to the results delivered from the wealth squandered on elevating the least successful strata of human development.

I'm mean, just think where we would all be today if Barack Obama and his family where denied their rations of Government Cheese/Food Stamps as opposed to funding the best and brightest doing fundamental scientific research that would eventually benefit all of mankind like so much of space exploration has!

If nothing else has ever proven the soundness of the guiding principle; that it is better for human kind to hinder the forward development of the most successful by requiring that society’s energy be redirected towards reversing the inevitable rearward progression of the least successful, this President of the United States has!