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An obvious answer would be to suggest that the problem is too open-ended. It's possible that even if we poured huge amounts of money into the search, nothing would be found. Bookies can't give sensible odds for success, even to those willing to gamble. Other countries are just being practical.
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yea, very unusual to find 7 planets which could maintain life in only one system. Tbh though, I would rather see NASA or ESA report finds of large veins of metals and other resources on asteroids, for example. We need to find more incentives for companies to go up there just like back in colonial times. Colonization would probably have been a whole lot slower without sugar in the Caribbean or gold in south america.
Another huge problem is that the general public doesn't really like science, because of its short attention span! The problem with the world we live in nowadays is that we can get all information we want in a matter of seconds. When an earthquake happens somewhere in Mongolia everyone will in a matter of hours know about it as long as someone decides that it is worth reporting.. Now, because of that, expecting people to wait realistically decades for a thing to happen like technology for faster space travel, for example, or the discovery of alien life will only create frustration and disappointment. We see things like the discovery of the new world from a very well researched point of view but think about the people which actually lived in those days. Things didn't happen immediately back then either which is simply something people nowadays have a hard time with to grasp and rather call things impossible or unrealistic..
An interesting article about that topic here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/mach/space/on...n-life-n698706