@xerophile - I read the Washington Post article you linked to myself and the thought 💭 immediately arose in my mind 🧠:
If we save money 💰 on making repairs at home then what good is our expensive military really protecting?
It’s silly to put a $100 lock on a rusting, breaking $3 bicycle that’s repeatedly in the news for giving everyone tetanus.
You're overlooking a couple of things: just because the US spends money doesn't mean it's being spent effectively.
Too often people look at the price tag and assume it bought something good, when it didn't.
Secondly, so much infrastructure is state and local responsibility, where projects can be better managed and local leaders held more accountable by their communities.
National defense is definitely a federal matter, so it has to be in the federal budget, but so much of this other stuff is better funded through processes closer to home, where they can better serve residents.
