a brief (fictional) conversation:

Government: So, let's see... there are millions of people starving (including children) all over the world (including here in the U.S.), millions of homeless, disabled, illiterate, needy... also, we have major problems with our infrastructure in most of the older cities that need financing, what else?

NASA: um, could we get a chunk of money?

Government: How much is a chunk?

NASA: oh, I don't know, like... say $79 MILLION

Government: What do you want to do with it?

NASA: we were thinking of crashing a 2 ton kinetic bomb into the harvest moon

Government: sounds totally reasonable.