Why is it assumed that the federal government is not greedy?

i believe i asked this exact question earlier

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I know, right. We should eliminate unnecessary spending. Let's start with the bloated military budget.

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This isn't quite the gotcha you are hoping for. Most here support that. Along with cuts to everything else. Why do you want to limit it to just military?

i'd imagine at least half of military spending is nothing more than wealth redistribution, crony capitalism, and political pandering to constituents

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at least half of government spending is nothing more than wealth redistribution, crony capitalism, and political pandering to constituents

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FIFY

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Who is making this assumption? Anyone with 10 operating brain cells would never make this assumption.

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Well apparently there is a huge contingent of voters with less than 10 brain cells. Have you ever heard Obama refer to the greedy federal government or any politician for that matter? It's always the greedy corporations; the greedy "rich".

But it's never the greedy federal government whom BTW has total access to the Federal Reserve printing press and assess to your labor through tax laws. What companies and workers have that kind of leverage?

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Have you ever heard Obama refer to the greedy federal government or any politician for that matter? It's always the greedy corporations; the greedy "rich".

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Exactly. Politicians like to portray themselves as being altruistic and more generous than the 'fat cat' CEOs when time after time its shown that they are at least as greedy, corrupt and selfish (if not more) than any businessperson.

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They look at themselves as Robin Hood characters.

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Except in reality they are in it for the money. Robin Hood never got rich from stealing from the rich. However our politicians do because they are greedy.

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Why do you want to limit it to just military?

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I said START with the military.

The government is made up of people. So it's no more or less greedy than the average person, just full of people who can work the system to their advantage. As long as Capitalism is our system, there's going to be governemnt corruption and cronyism.

The bigger problem with government is large organizations are inherently inefficient. The Federal Government is just happens to be the biggest organization in the game.