QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Jul 19 2022, 12:14)

I'm not so sure he was in favor of banning abortion
You're right on that. He wasn't fond of abortion. What he supported was having the government get out of our lives. He wasn't in favor of censorship either,
so having a Ministry of Truth would be anathema to him. He would be disappointed with today's democrat party. In my area, the democrats spent approx
100 million of the taxpayers money on multiple projects to construct 350 housing units for the homeless. I bet the contracts were subcontracted[**] so
many times that hardly any money went to actual construction.

[**] One way government corruption works is to steer contracts to a friend's (first level) corporation. So, if the contract cost 100 units
of money, that corp skims off 10 units as its fee and then subcontracts the task to the politician's other friend who skims 10 units off
before dividing the task into 40 subcontracts each of which is 2 units of value. Each subcontractor is a relative or friend of the politician
or the two prior major contractors who skimmed 10 units each. Each subcontractor skims 1 unit and the 1 unit left is spent on hiring
actual workers or paying for materials in that task. I've oversimplified it, but this type of parasitic subcontracting is technically legal
when lawyers carefully draw up the contracts to fit within the law of how bids are solicited and how bids are then awarded. It is not
unknown for the bidding process to be cancelled if the wrong bidder wins as there will be a clause that the government decided to
have certain changes made, thus requiring new bids to be submitted. Japan suffered from this subcontractor corruption during the
recovery from Fukushima. A lot of cleanup contractors appeared to suck up government funding and they kept on subcontracted
tasks out until there was as little as 15% of the original money to be paid to the actual company or people who did actual cleanup.