im gonna try that argument with my wife
"listen honey, can i spend 100 bucks we dont have on my duster?
i know we dont have it, but we're spending 1800 a month on a mortgage and this is way less then that"
Sure.
But de funding NASA won't balance the budget. Using your example, that's more like a new oil filter then a hundred bucks, though.
And NASA is like a Duster. Not a Hemi Cuda.