• @Chestnut
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    811 months ago

    The problem here is that no one knows what the government does because government agencies, with one exception, aren’t allowed to toot their own horn. That one government agency is NASA and everyone loves them

    If you’re interested you can read the book The Fifth Risk. The government isn’t perfect but it does so much being the scenes that people just don’t appreciate

    • @uis
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      511 months ago

      NASA delivers. I guess USPS delivers too.

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          11 months ago

          Knowing scale of corruption in Russia, bombs in US seem even less funded than in RF.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 months ago

      IIRC most of the government’s budget goes to food stamps and similar already. Which I guess are shitty dysfunctional programs in their own right (and that’s probably a product of the same anti-government attitudes).

      People seem to miss that defence, while huge both by proportional and absolute measures, is still like 4% 13% of what the US government spends on. American services, where they suck, don’t suck for that reason. And yeah, they don’t all suck. Canada Post is kinda shit, while USPS sounds like it’s universally loved, for example.

      Edit: Point stands, but I mixed up GDP and federal budget at first.

      • @uis
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        111 months ago

        most of the government’s budget goes to food stamps

        I didn’t know US have food shortage

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          They don’t but they have poor people who can’t buy food, like most countries. Wonders of trickle-down capitalism, I guess. There’s a program that allows these people to buy groceries called “food stamps”.

          I’m not sure why this is downvoted. Someone posted a pie chart further down that actually shows the breakdown. Social programs are indeed a majority of the budget.