If You Don't Support Space Exploration You're A Jackass, and Other Truisms

You might think, faced with such obviously dire circumstances as Katrina and the war in Iraq, politicians would finally face the facts of their own corrupt ineptitude and at least make an attempt at creating a just society, with fair laws protecting the weak and the poor, providing for the downtrodden, sick and injured.
Instead I already see the finger pointing, name calling, blame-dodging, unchivalrousness that have become the hallmarks of the U.S. governmental branches.

The Highway Bill has so much pork in it the whole thing should have never been approved in the first place, the wealthy have begged for recent tax breaks (including the repeal of the inheritance tax) afforded them to be reversed and the soon-to-begin Prescription Drug Benefit has been loudly proclaimed a failure by members of President Bush's own administration, and yet I already hear some people talking about how pointless NASA is and how the Space program is a perk, something we should have only in times of economic prosperity.
"Cut NASA for the extra money! It's a waste of taxpayer money."

I say HOGWASH! People in the USA better wake-up and smell the technology: Space exploration is the only future we have. Soon, almost every industrialized nation on the planet will have some form of Space fleet.
Do you really want to live in the only country without one?