[rktman]

And how much($) have we thrown away since the push for “the great society” started in ‘65?

[Jim Noble]

And how much($) have we thrown away since the push for “the great society” started in ‘65?

$22 trillion, more or less, if you don't count the no-show/no-production jobs and the wasted free college educations.

[KGeorge]

Yep. And we’d play hell trying to add it up because it’s gone off in so many directions, we’d spend the next 30 or 40 years finding stuff we missed- like grants & ‘endowments’ & ‘studies’ & BS like that.