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Amazing. Nice little "super power" we have over here. A trillion dollars just can't even buy it success while a trillion dollars could have done wonders for education, healthcare, pensions, and many other things. Nice little clown show we are operating over here.

> a trillion dollars could have done wonders for education

The way the US education system works, I have my doubts 😂

@cjd The potential is there. Its execution is another thing. We know the military can't handle any money. We can't even audit them. I don't think education is losing track of billions or trillions in equipment and funds though.

US education funding just all disappears into Democrat campaign accounts.

The US could be first in the world with current education spending on a system that is not insanely corrupt.

@cjd I don't know enough to say. Can't be as bad as the military though.

2023 Military -> 736bn
2014 Education -> 904bn

The trick is that education is mostly on the state and local books, not federal. And different years because those are just the charts I found...

@cjd Lets pretend that we for sure know education is more corrupt for a second. At least that corruption is mostly staying at a local and state level instead of international contracts with foreign nations such as Israel that get big bonuses from the military expenditures. The military can make a bunch of weapons, not use most of it for a decade, and then "donate" it to places like Ukraine or fuel black budgets. The current budget is something like 1.15 trillion for the military too.