One too many roommates entertaining the meth hobby was one too many for me. Living alone was a great decision.

Yes and no. A lot of it is the function that the National Defense Authorization Act has passed some 65+ years in a row in Congress and you won't find another authorization bill that is likely going to pass every year. So if you want something to be done, get DoD to do it in the NDAA. Then again, DoD should pay for medical research for diseases, illnesses, and injuries that are prevalent in military members veterans (This is also budgetary blackhole, of endless ways to spend money, but the dollars are very significant in terms of making an impact for these specific diseases. As a result you get research lists like that of the appropriately named Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program. As others have pointed out, there are also a lot of controls on DoD dollars in terms of Buy American provisions, so money is [generally] going into DoD for procurement or research tends to stay in American companies or American institutions.

Is it too much. Possibly, but it's not all bombs and bullets.

I have an aunt that works at National Cancer Institute at NIH. In the partial shutdown (2019?) her entire lab was operating as business as usual because dod and milcon/VA approps had been signed into law and her lab's entire operating budget was DOD funds.

DOD's non-defebse funding a absolutely dwarfs other cabinet agencies entire budgets.

The emergency declaration was approved 14 hours ago by the president. The question you should be asking is why did NY Gov wait so long to request it. Teleportation has yet to be invented, so moving supplies and relief into an area that is inundated with snow during a time of national holiday travel chaos takes time.

Ah so it just continues to happen as it currently does. Got it. Thanks.

I don't think writing your congressman is going to fix the UK tax code.

And who is this global entity that is going to go around and collect everyone's global taxes?