The US "lost" between $932,000,000,000 $2,084,000,000,000 between 2018 and 2022.
On the low end, that's:
13 brand new aircraft carriers
81 border walls
"End homelessness" 46 times
35 years of gym memberships for all Americans
The entire GDP of Switzerland
The entire NASA budget from '60-'73, 3 times
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105833
We don't have a system problem. We have a corruption problem, and it starts with the money itself.