taxpayers are uninformed. that's how the mic gets away with basically stealing 1t/year. here's how the governments, from a former insider's pov... beg for money, say it's for the kids or defense (if we don't bomb them and waste money they'd be bombing us!), and always ask for more each year. if any government department doesn't waste all the money, that's a fail. they aren't giving it back but it may seem like they don't need more next year so whoever was responsible for not finding useless shit to waste money on will be forced to resign. also, for whatever reason the people in charge have to be niggers. i have just explained the reason f-35s aren't good. because that was never the goal. the goal is to spend as much money as possible and create demand for a larger budget next year. planes that need a lot of maintenance are perfect.
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