Good grief. NASA (for the most part) spends the money on hardware, software, and expertise. Is there waste? Absolutely. Should it be minimized? You betcha. The point is that the money is handed out to people simply for breathing.
Yes this is worse - no argument from me at all on that score. Just because there are lots worse things than government funded space exploration doesn't mean that it is good. When you come right down to it those people who get paid to breath then go and spend the money on various things too.