brooklynmutt answered your question: At the risk of sounding quite ignorant….
good question. but cutting space exploration means cutting science programs. how about cutting corn farm subsidies first.
Hmmm I didn’t think about it that way… Perhaps the money would better be spent on science programs geared on creating treatments and cures for high incidence diseases in India, or to develop more sustainable infrastructures?
And I can’t comment on the subsidies because I need to read more about them ;)