I'm not holding my breath waiting for Cosmic Dave to tear himself away from his ictheology(sp?) texts and answer the Apollo questions. (You ain't gonna learn 18 years worth of ichthyology fast enough to fool anyone here, CD.)
However, I think many of us here can remember being immature and idealistic, so I don't begrudge him his opinions on government spending priorities. My priorities wouldn't be the same as his, but we can all have an opinion - and I doubt any of us would see the pattern of government spending to be precisely as we, as individuals, would choose.

I am curious, however as to why countries that didn't have, and still don't have a space program still have poverty, disease, crime and drug addicts. I know the UK space program didn't suck all the money out of the National Health system! Gee, CD - if only all the time you spent building and maintaining a website or typing posts into a forum such as this were spent on community service, imagine how much better the lot of the old or disadvantaged would be. PRIORITIES, man.