Should the world powers temporarily disband their outer space related programs?   stance: yes, during these global hard economic times the luxury of space programs needs to go:
Absolutely. What practical application is there in knowing whether or not there was life on Mars? Other than curiosity what could we hope to gain when the world is suffering being torn apart by war, starving, job loss on the rise? Which is not to say I am not curious, that I am not fascinated when I get to watch a good program about space, I am. But we need to focus our resources on fixing what is wrong here on Earth before we go chasing the curios of the galaxy.