Anything to keep the children entertained.( Ah yes, bloviating. The only four syllable word some Kansans ever learned so they use it...a lot.) Poke.poke. I guess some don't have the attention span to stick it out, let alone understand it. Sounds like some of today's school kids. Say everything in two sentences or forget it. Even better text it using text speak.
Never know, ya might learn something. After all, some American farmer grows the food that the White house serves, don't they? It's American food at those State Dinners. Except for the salad garden, which is right there during the growing season, it all comes from someone's American farm. If you were an American farmer wouldn't you like to sell to the White House? Why it might even be Kansas wheat that made the flour that the rolls were made from. Even the caviar is from farm raised American sturgeon. A number of states have sturgeon farms.There must be a market for it or they wouldn't be in business! Have you looked at it from that perspective? One man's tax is another man's income.
Yes, of course they could do better and the Gov't, both national and states are not known for being very efficient. Yet, you too have folks who live off taxes. How else would you do it? Fire all the road crews? Close all the schools? Shut off the water? Go back to out houses? Never repair the public building roofs (rooves)?

Then what? Everybody moves into Quonset huts? Well sure. Somebody would make money from selling them to you. P The very thing you howl about puts money in someone else's pocket,who will then go spend it on something they need or want.
Perhaps some of you should take a real economics class to see how it's all tied together. Some of you seem to be looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
Your own people are fighting for Gov't money to go to your state, just like everybody else.How would you suggest it be it done. Many states have to subsidize Kansas at it is. As you know, Delaware is one of them...that gives me the right to have an opinion!

HA! Try broadening your view a little.