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There's always one person with this comment. From a USA perspective, social security, the space program, the all powerful military machine, operation warp spee

There's always one person with this comment. From a USA perspective, social security, the space program, the all powerful military machine, operation warp speed, the UFO cover-up. FDA, EPA, FEC. The FTC seems pretty successful if you're a wall street trader. In California , medi-cal covers 1/3 of the population. Firefighters. Police... Kind of iffy here.

fasteddie31003 6y ago
Social Security works because the federal government just needs to print checks. Well some contractor prints the checks. But will the government be responsible enough to fund social security sustainably into the future? The US Space program is falling apart with NASA's SLS rocket failing basic tests and costing $20B. Oh and James Webb being delayed years and costing $10B (if it even works). The only bright light in American space programs is SpaceX and JPL. The $750B a year military machine is a huge waste of money which deserves a post on itself. Here's a terrible waste from Biden's Defense Secretary nominee https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/general-austin-us-trained-syrian-rebels-fighting-isis/story?id=33802596 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/general-austin-us-trained-sy... $500M for 4-5 actual fighters. I'm ok paying police and firefighters at the local level. The government bureaucracy gets worse and worse the further you get away from local government. I can go on.
- greesil 6y ago
  Military: We haven't been invaded yet. And it employs lots of people. And it brings pork to lots of districts. We installed two puppet regimes on the other side of the planet! How is that not success? Space: every single robot/vehicle/probe that does science across the solar system and beyond. Every single NRO satellite the size of Hubble pointed at our enemies. I'm actually serious about social security. How does that not work? Between it and medicare that makes most of the federal budget, and it keeps people healthy and fed. Repeating a libertarian trope does not make it so.
therealdrag0 6y ago
Also I’ve heard the SEC and the like has enormously reduced fraudulent/swindling over the last century.

fasteddie31003 6y ago

Social Security works because the federal government just needs to print checks. Well some contractor prints the checks. But will the government be responsible enough to fund social security sustainably into the future? The US Space program is falling apart with NASA's SLS rocket failing basic tests and costing $20B. Oh and James Webb being delayed years and costing $10B (if it even works). The only bright light in American space programs is SpaceX and JPL. The $750B a year military machine is a huge waste of money which deserves a post on itself. Here's a terrible waste from Biden's Defense Secretary nominee https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/general-austin-us-trained-syrian-rebels-fighting-isis/story?id=33802596 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/general-austin-us-trained-sy... $500M for 4-5 actual fighters. I'm ok paying police and firefighters at the local level. The government bureaucracy gets worse and worse the further you get away from local government. I can go on.

greesil 6y ago
Military: We haven't been invaded yet. And it employs lots of people. And it brings pork to lots of districts. We installed two puppet regimes on the other side of the planet! How is that not success? Space: every single robot/vehicle/probe that does science across the solar system and beyond. Every single NRO satellite the size of Hubble pointed at our enemies. I'm actually serious about social security. How does that not work? Between it and medicare that makes most of the federal budget, and it keeps people healthy and fed. Repeating a libertarian trope does not make it so.

therealdrag0 6y ago

Also I’ve heard the SEC and the like has enormously reduced fraudulent/swindling over the last century.