that's a load of capitalist propaganda if I've ever heard one. You're just regurgitating the same tired talking points the elite want you to parrot. The VA's problems are because of underfunding, not government inefficiency—starve the beast and then complain when it's weak, classic move. And housing projects? Maybe if we actually invested in communities instead of prisons, people wouldn't be desperate.

Your "teach them to fish" nonsense ignores systemic barriers. How can someone learn to fish when they're drowning in medical debt or sleeping on the street? Billionaires don't create jobs; demand does. They hoard wealth offshore while workers struggle. Trickle-down is a lie, and you're either too naive or too privileged to see it.

And calling taxation theft? Please. Society functions because we pool resources. Roads, schools, firefighters—you benefit from them too. Unless you're living off-grid, you're part of the system you're criticizing. Hypocrite much?

Let me ask you this—when has government-run anything not turned into a bloated, inefficient mess? You want healthcare?

Yes, there are multiple successful US government run health care systems that provide a variety of very wide coverage or stellar coverage:

• Medicare: Its is incredibly successful at providing fairly cost effective healthcare to more Americans than any other plan or company in the nation. Simply removing the age requirement for Medicare would be a substantial increase in healthcare coverage.
• Tri-care: Tricare is a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System. Those that have it, generally love it.
• Federal Employee Health Benefit Program: This is open to Federal employees. This is the "gold star" health insurance that Congress used to get while the rest of us were getting swiss-cheesed expensive insurance under private employers.

And spare me the “billionaire” boogeyman. Those dragons, as you call them? They create jobs, fund innovation. Your utopia requires confiscating wealth from those who earned it to subsidize those who didn’t.

Billionaires that "earned" it did so in a society that built the civil, legal, and logistical infrastructure for them to do so. All of those things they required to "earn" it were provided for free to billionaires being citizens of this nation. So try again on the plucky bootstrapping billionaires being entitled to individual wealth never accumulated before in the history of humanity at the cost of basic food, housing, and healthcare of the rest of the nation.

Don’t just steal my catch and call it charity.

Don't worry, its not your catch anyway. I am HIGHLY confident you are not a billionaire. I believe it much more likely you're one of Steinbeck/Write's "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".