Man in the moon?

I was watching the news last night, and I saw that the US is spending over 100 billion dollars to send people to the moon. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? I mean come on... With all that is going on right now with the hurricanes, can we really afford to do this? Not saying that space exploration isnt important, but is it on the top of the list right now? Sometimes I just dont understand why we do the things we do....