Imagine what could have been accomplished with the several trillion that we have spent

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31. So long as people of no good will hold the purse strings....

those funds will have no good purpose. Until we, in our public servants, value selflessness over success and "growth", the spending of our national treasure is just another exercise in dissipation.

When a problem/challenge rears up on the horizon, our government's response is to throw money at it. Either trying to buy it away or propagandize it out of the American discourse. Do we, as a people, agree with that?

Obviously we don't. I think that's why Joe Biden prevailed so overwhelmingly. With the removal from office and relevance of the current GQP hot-head crowd, we might change but it will still be swimming uphill. There is an intransigent laziness of thought in the minds of too many 21st century white Americans. Perhaps it's from wasting too much time processing the fraud so prevalent in our daily lives of internet perusal and cell-phone addiction. They must recognize current priorities and then help to improve things or accept their irrelevance and get out of the way.