The piggies are starting to squeal at just the thought of losing their place at the government trough. Somehow the I don’t think those who lost their investments, savings and/or jobs will be too sympathetic at paying more taxes to keep government-paid employees from sharing their pain.
China would be happy to take the reigns and delight at an anemic NASA.
Currently .7 percent of the federal budget is spent on NASA.
NASA could disappear tomorrow and it would make no difference at all in our economic problems, for a while, in ten, twenty years, it will start hurting bad as other nations press outward and reap the rewards.
NASA is smart money spent on the future.