Yeah, an anecdote. The USA spend through the federal (only!) budget roughly $4 000 B every year, yet they don't fund properly even people like Dr. Todd Rider. The man asked just for $2 M for his DRACO research (100% effective proved cure against viruses like flu, herpes, etc) - it's like to ask for two coins from a stack 4 km long. Two coins and four kilometers stack of those. Every effing year!

And do you know how they treated Dr. Tullio Simoncini? This society is fawked, hahahah.