Where I live, any lack of a functional social safety net is a failure of execution, not a failure of funding.

EA-18s are real, the things you speak of only exist in the imagination.

It's circuses. Bread and circuses, except we don't get the bread part.

But some people really like circuses.

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bla bla bla you don't have to choose between doing interesting stuff and fixing all problems.