Our understanding of the universe must continue. Science must receive even more money than is already supplied. You want to help starving people, take one of your paychecks, spend the entirely of it on food, and send it to haiti. Governments will not help starving people, nor will corporations. There's no money it. You want them to not starve, sacrifice some of what YOU have and send it to them. Don't punish science for the sake of people that are essentially already dead.