Redirect at least 1/3 of the Defense Department budget to NASA to research the development of Warp Drive Technology

We propose that the United States government should begin focusing its efforts on the development of feasible, efficient, and safe interstellar travel, for the purposes of exploration and colonization. NASA has already begun on preliminary research for such a propulsion mechanism, but its budget is so low it should be seen as a veritable national scandal. Meanwhile, we have hundreds of unnecessary bases around the world and are ranked as spending more on our military than the next 14 countries combined.
The future of mankind is with the stars, and it is in the capacity of the United States to begin that transition. To move toward a greater galactic civilization is the only way we can ensure the long-term survival of the species.
To explore, to live, to dream.
Such is to be human.