We spent trillions on the war not so long ago, who knows how many billions just spent in Europe, and hundreds of billions on various programs that do not really

We spent trillions on the war not so long ago, who knows how many billions just spent in Europe, and hundreds of billions on various programs that do not really produce anything, so when I saw numbers like $8.5B from the government these days it's like nothing to me, why is this even a headline? I just can not make sense of it myself anymore.