What do you think should be done about national funding of the U.S. space program?

If we want to go to space we need to do it through a government funded NASA program just like we have in the past. This is not a commercial operation. I'm not saying we can't have a commercial space program, I am saying that a space program for the purpose of discovery is not a commercial profit based program and has to be funded by the people for the knowledge of the people.