So then, by your statistic, the 34% of people that are below the poverty line are screwed.
I'll round numbers down to account for possible in accuricies.
The US has a population of about 290,000,000. 10% are below the poverty line. That's 29,000,000 people. Of them, according to your statistic, about 30% are stuck there. That's about 8,700,000 people. That's a lot of people.
In any case, this thread isn't about Iraq. How about the extra money from NASA be used to feed starving kids in third world countries or send food/whatever to Iraq? That sounds like a good use of money to me, better than sending rockets up, which is the point here.