"Wadda ya think?"

I don't have a high opinion of polls. But let's seriously consider DR. GRIFFIN's question: ""NASA will spend about 5 percent or less of the money which is spent on national defense each year for the next 20 years. What would you like to see done with that money."

So NASA spends around 16 billion per year. A large chunk of that money pays for the salaries and all other costs associated with employing people in a govt job. This government job program can be viewed similar to all the entitlement program in the federal budget, such as Social security and Medicare. And if you going to change this aspect of NASA spending, you need to think long term. There could a lot to be said about this, but it's fairly boring. But it's seems to me that if you have a job program, you try to make it a better Job Program. And one improvement is tweek it's general direction. You tweek it by doing small pilot like programs. and strengthen those that seem to work. This is done low key instead hyping it and thereby distracting everyone for doing their jobs. Anyways, this is boring as I said. What people find more exciting is the discretional spending aspect of the Budget. There isn't much of this and it's gnawed at by congressional earmarks- pork barrel spending. So you could address this aspect of govt waste.
Another chunk of money is the money funding thing like VentureStar type things, the latest being CEV; money going Lockmart and Boeing normally and mostly, but there are signs that NASA least looking at involving other companies- and just serious looking, is useful. If nothing else, it makes Lockmart and Boeing imagine they are less of a molopoly.
I think in term of general direction, NASA could be going in the right direction. I think offering prizes is a good step in right direction. I think the effort of trying to work with private sector is going in right direction.
I think what has to be understood is that we are trying to open the space frontier, and that private sector involvement in this is critical.

In slogan terms: Less cheerleading for NASA the Space Program, more NASA cheerleading for any private sector interest to become involved in Space.