“How about silly things that cost $2.5 billion?”
In terms of Obama spending and debt creation in the past 3 plus years, 2.5 billion dollars pales into insignificance. And this has a lot more merit that the f’n bailouts of hundreds of billions that benefited bankster buddies of Obama, etc etc etc.
Our trip to the moon created hundreds of new products for this nation, strengthened our military greatly, and gave Americans their first home computers - and this trip to Mars has done, and is continuing to do many of the same kind of things.