Satire gets harder and harder with each passing week here in the burgeoning idiocracy.
Except for his ability to turn a colorful phrase, Joad would sound like any number of actual NASA-bashing luddites.
With her penchant for hyperbole and exaggeration , the young lady is even closer to the real thing: “NASA spends trillions of dollars a year” and “the average manned mission costs 15 billion dollars,” are in the ballpark for actual space-basher claims. (These are between 30 and 200 times the actual amounts, btw.)

Few public issues in history have been as wildly misperceived and misrepresented as NASA’s budget and the costs associated with spaceflight.
The average American thinks that NASA receives 24% of the federal budget, more than 40 times the actual figure.
Just recently, I heard a noted televangelist tell his audience that NASA spends “hundreds of billion dollars a year looking for UFOs.” The audience didn’t bat an eye at this double lie, apparently it is something “everybody knows.”