What things/projects do you consider wasteful spending by the American 🇺🇸 government?

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Lliam · Accepted Answer

Imperialism - war; weapons of mass destruction; influencing foreign elections; engineering coups; paying, training and arming mercenaries. Our aggression has nothing to do with defending democracy or civil rights.

Giving financial assistance and weapons to fucked up governments like Israel.

Paying usury to the global banking establishment.

HAARP and chemtrails.

Multiple agencies like NSA, whose job it is to monitor and control ordinary citizens.

Propaganda and mind control programs.

The military budget is outrageous and unnecessary.

Overly high salaries and perks for elected officials and top government officials.

Socialism for elites and major corporations.

MuddyMole · Accepted Answer

Everything. It's not waste though - it's corruption; the result of decades of lobbying by the corporations involved in finance, arms manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, health insurance, etc.
Wherever you look, US spending *per capita* is far more than that of other Western countries - sometimes double or triple (eg. military).
Look at how much the US spends on healthcare:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/per-capita-health-expenditure-by-country/
(bear in mind that the US doesn't even have a universal healthcare system)

Whatever2929292 · Answer

Have you ever seen the waste project by Rand Paul I think? Some of it was absolutely REDONKULOUS!  As well as shipping so much money to Ukraine and letting us starve and pay higher gas prices.

KrakenAttackin · Answer

I have worked with/for the government and you cannot believe the mandates, quotas, requirements, when responding to a government RFP. The requirements like "must have x number of native American participants", in a place where none exist, than the extensive waiver process, etc. This shit explodes costs as you have to pay people to do nothing just to count noses.

exitseven · Answer

Anything with the word, equity, diversity or gender in it.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

First and foremost, paying Joe's salary!! If a guy gets hired to flip burgers at McDonald's and refuses to do so, does he still get paid for it?

Anonymous · Answer

I think that after having a child and applying for AFDC, a woman shold have free birth control made available but any subsequent children should not be eligible for AFDC. If she continues to have children, refusing available birth control, knowing that she can't afford them, I would deem that to be child abuse and would have the state take her children until she develop the means to support them on her own.

driven159 · Answer

there are so many don't have 3 lifetimes to tell them all, but the IRS is one just have a flat tax, so everyone pays their fair share not what they think is their fair share and if they don't put them in prison and it's a waste of money to have politicians that can't get anything done pay them what they get done not by doing nothing like someone that works on commission or piece work paid by how many they make and stop giving countries money that don't go to the people just in rulers pockets

Anonymous · Answer

The war in Ukraine. US government should not be supporting Ukrainian Nazi's in a war against another nuclear power.

Anonymous · Answer

All of it.🤷🏼‍♂️

Well maybe not police and military. But even then they don't do a good job of it. I mean look at the VA; that should be a top tier hospital organization instead it is joke. Such that you think Hunter Biden was running it.

jimmy2 · Answer

Trillions of dollars on who knows and wants more money to waist

joeldalton · Answer

Just about everything.

In_Trance · Answer

Military and Space Exploration

Surely · Answer

Too many to name on here!

Cubus · Answer

Viagra and music bands for the millitary.

IsoUser · Answer

How about American Infrastructure and Roads

Lochlan · Answer

Drug Enforcement

Snsl153 · Answer

The military.

USLegionary · Answer

Planned parenthood

CAPTAIN-OBVIOUS · Answer

MILITARY

BillyBalls · Answer

About 80% of it.

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