Funny how you want their money, not their opinion.
If their opinion wasn't heaping scorn on invention, exploration, progress, while rehashing disingenuous Luddite philosophies, there might be less ridicule.
Remember - it is our taxes too. Much better to invest it than waste it.
First off the tax and spend folks, protecting their sacred cow, NASA, resort to name calling in referring to their opponents as Luddites.
No one opposing this scheme is "heaping scorn on invention" , that is quite silly. I think NASA deserves scorn more than it deserves another dip in the public trough.
The latest crash of the shuttle proves they are not interested in getting the job done. They failed to use the best insulating material to insulate some tanks, so the material fell on the wing breaking it. They choose to use sub-par materials inorder to be politically correct.
Get it? They choose political correctness over getting the job done, because they really don't care about getting the job done.