Must stop writing about that dumb editorial. Must ... resist .... Temptation..... Can't .... resist

A closer analogy is this. The US federal government has scheduled deficits of mind boggling present value. The Voyager program, which costs $ 4 million a year is very minor. Yet even eliminating this very minor component of the deficit is controversial and fairly politically difficult, being criticized in ....
The reason is that eliminating this tiny amount of spending in exchange for not getting unique scientific data on the boundry of the solar system (that is the area where the solar wind becomes weaker than the radiation of deep space) and then the first up close and personal look at deep space is totally totally dumb. Even little reforms can be poltically difficult when they are aweful ideas. The fact that the benefits are tiny may make it more politically difficult to do something, because people do not have infinite patience with total idiocy.