There is a strong consensus among economists that a small amount of inflation is desirable. Deflation is disastrous for an economy as it becomes more advantageous to sit on cash instead of being productive. The massive expansion of the money supply since the economic collapse of 2008 was necessary, and inflation has remained low. Things would be much worse if the money supply had not been expanded. You can imagine the fact that inflation remained low despite these massive influxes of money was indicative of strong deflationary pressure. There was the threat of massive collapse of institutions due to assets fizzling into nothing, which effectively shrunk the money supply, and needed to be combated with new money from the Fed. To claim that the government needs to operate "like the rest of us" is supreme ignorance. The federal government is not like an individual financially. For example debt owed by the government to the Federal Reserve is not analogous to a personal debt owned by a typical citizen. The financial rules and realities are different for governments as compared to individuals - and they should be.

We shouldn't spend any money or resources visting planets or moons. This serves no practical purpose. We already are using satellites for communications/earth imaging, but I don't think the poll is about that. Asteroid defense should be developed. It is obviously worthwile to defend the planet. Another thing worth doing would be to set off a nuke near an asteroid to get some gravity wave data. Finally, instead of manned missions to The Moon or Mars, I would rather see a better space station constructed in Earth Orbit. I mean the large rotating kind, like in 2001: A Space Odyssey. But there are probably better things to spend money on than this, that don't involve outer space.