Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Just swap civil services budget with military budget.

Imagine what NASA would do in ten years with Pentagon's budget swapped.



Done.

NASA's budget is now $0 though, since the military budget all went to Medicare with nothing left to spare for anything else. Along with the FAA and every other government department.


Citation needed?


You need me to Google Medicare budget and defense budget for you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)

>In 2020, US federal government spending on Medicare was $776.2 billion.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...

>Annual budget US$721.5 billion (FY2020)[2]

Hopefully, I won't need a citation that $776 > $721


It's much worse than that. Defense budget is hidden by breaking it down to many many different divisions. "Homeland Security" is defense with massive budget but it's separate from Pentagon, DoD, etc.

Anyone think the NSA budget for "defense" is included in Pentagon, DoD, Homeland Security?

Anyone think the trillion dollars in weapons being sent to Ukraine for our proxy war with Russia is in any visible budget?

Medicare meanwhile cannot hide all the spending, it's right there, even the fraud in the system is visible in the spending. But defense spending hides twice maybe even three times the spending.


Your source doesn't support your assertion:

> NASA's budget is now $0 though, since the military budget all went to Medicare with nothing left to spare for anything else. Along with the FAA and every other government department.


This does not back up the original claim in the slightest which was obviously a grotesque exaggeration. Please refrain from hyperbole and sarcasm - it damages the quality of the conversation.


So, US spends approximately $12,000 per beneficiary per year. Given the cost of medical expenses, this does not seem too large..


Well the USA does spend the most per capita on health care.

Meanwhile other first world nations pay about half that and get mostly better results...




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: