No space projects that do not shovel significant tax dollars toward these sacred cows will receive more than minimal support. That's your problem, right there!!
You’re looking at the symptoms.
The terminal disease is that we have NO STATED program to BUILD outward.
I don't think you get it.
This guy is auctioning off all the livestock and knocking down the barns, and then he's going to sell the house and the dirt to the Chinese for cheap -- just to spite the heirs, because he hates them.
Get it now?