Future Airport Hell due to NASA funding woes?

DailyTech has an interesting article on how NASA's current funding problems impact aviation research, such as the next generation of air traffic control (note that NASA itself says there isn't a funding problem).

You might end up stuck in horrendous airport delays in a few years time thanks to Shuttle cost overruns and the Moon/Mars program. Not the kind of social impact we'd like the space program to have eh?

[update - fixed typos]