On 10-21-22 18:13, Jeff Thiele <=-
spoke to Aaron Thomas about Re: Breaking News from Ma <=-
Trillions of dollars later, where did it all go? I don't see jack!
By "trillions of dollars," are you talking about the US budget? Well
over half of it goes to defense, much of what's left goes to paying the salaries of federal workers, a few slivers go to maintaining the social safety net, such as it is, another sliver goes to NASA (who just
knocked an asteroid off course in a test of planetary defense), some of
it goes to maintaining and improving the infrastructure, etc.
A lot of it you don't see because you take it for granted.
The numbers / order that you quote are sort of right for the[...]
discretionary spending. From a chart for FY2021, reference:
But if you are talking about the total US budget, you are quite wrong.Thanks for the correction, Dale! My bad.
My interest would be more along the lines of "if we can figure out how it started, maybe we can stop it from happening again" but, yes, that could open a Pandora's box.In this case, it is not possible to know because China won't even a the WHO to investigate it. I am not aware of Biden saying we'd nev investigate it. Aaron seems to think so and I may have missed something.Plus, think of the precedent it would set. If a pandemic were to start i US and rumors began in other countries that it was a biological weapon g awry, how would we feel about WHO or Chinese inspectors demanding access American research facilities?
If China won't let the WHO finish an investigation, I don't see the allowing the USA to start one, so it would likely be a waste.
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