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The problem here is that no one knows what the government does because government agencies, with one exception, aren't allowed to toot their own horn. That one government agency is NASA and everyone loves them
If you're interested you can read the book The Fifth Risk. The government isn't perfect but it does so much being the scenes that people just don't appreciate
NASA delivers. I guess USPS delivers too.
Both of which are severely underfunded in favor of new bombs.
Knowing scale of corruption in Russia, bombs in US seem even less funded than in RF.
IIRC most of the government's budget goes to food stamps and similar already. Which I guess are shitty dysfunctional programs in their own right (and that's probably a product of the same anti-government attitudes).
People seem to miss that defence, while huge both by proportional and absolute measures, is still like ~~4%~~ 13% of what the US government spends on. American services, where they suck, don't suck for that reason. And yeah, they don't all suck. Canada Post is kinda shit, while USPS sounds like it's universally loved, for example.
Edit: Point stands, but I mixed up GDP and federal budget at first.
I didn't know US have food shortage
They don't but they have poor people who can't buy food, like most countries. Wonders of trickle-down capitalism, I guess. There's a program that allows these people to buy groceries called "food stamps".
I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Someone posted a pie chart further down that actually shows the breakdown. Social programs are indeed a majority of the budget.