A billion here and a billion there. Before long you are talking about real money. Rarely are government budgets based in reality. Someone talks Congress into g

A billion here and a billion there. Before long you are talking about real money. Rarely are government budgets based in reality. Someone talks Congress into giving them X dollars to solve problem Y because many people think Y is a problem and want it solved. Instead they spend 3X dollars and only a tiny portion of it goes towards solving Y while the bulk of it goes into Z instead. Sometimes Z was the point all along and they were purposely deceiving us. Sometimes Z takes over because the people running the program decide that Z just became more important (to them at least).