"A tyrant would have arrested and executed you for what you just said, instead of personally supporting the inclusion of the right of free speech in the Constitution of Vinland."
Freyjanna does not know what a 'tyrant' means.
1B. The Butlerian Jihad will not come to pass. I don't see the harm in 'not intelligent' machines, as in our present day technology level 'not intelligent'. How do you run a space program without computers and automated factories anyway?
2A>B. I support Grimgravy's sentiment that both programs should be run concurrently. We need a long-term solution, and we need proper conditions for a population boom, but we can also benefit from importing
qualified personnel from abroad. We don't need janitors, but we might benefit from their engineers, scientists or skilled workers. Though with the technology disparity their scientists might as well be janitors anyway.
The most important budgets are space program, weapons research and counter-intelligence (so that no one can interfere with it), medical insurance (we can't afford to lose people, we are too few), family encouragement fund, and educational program to put more people to factories and universities. Everything else can burn along with the planet when ITZ arrives. All our efforts should be targeted to have the space program up and running ASAP.
3C. Can't divert much more resourses from our main goal.
4A. Abandon ship. Alpha Centauri looks the most promising, but if we can, we should scatter across several worlds. Humanity's problem is that it keeps all eggs in a single basket. We should try and spread across multiple star systems to eventually have a chance against this new threat.