Concern about LHC style research

The Large Hadron Collider is down for repairs, at the tune of almost $26 million. While this is within the operating budget of CERN, the total cost of the device is expected to approach at least 6 billion USD, all of which is paid for by various nations and organizations. Given that we're moving towards a global depression (depending on who you read), what prospects do we have of such grandiose, multinational research projects in the coming decade if nation-states are primarily focusing towards sustaining themselves?

Update: io9 also wrote about this.