They'll steal it anyway

The Ministry of Economic Development has decided on priority federal target programs: a third of all money allocated for them will go to the development of the military-industrial complex, the space industry and the Far East. All socially significant programs - health care, safety, housing - will be reduced, and the deadlines for their implementation will be shifted.

And that’s right, why bother? They'll steal it anyway, it's better to cut off the feeding trough in one fell swoop. The population is shrinking, which means space is being freed up in Khrushchev-era buildings and beds in hospitals, and medicines are growing along the roads, like plantain and dandelion. There is plenty of food in the forests: mushrooms and berries, the summer season has begun again, the people will grow potatoes, cucumbers and tomatoes - beauty!

And the money must be spent where no one will ever see it: in space and the Far East, which, by our standards, is almost the same thing. They banged a couple of satellites - half a billion stuck, drew a shopping center in the taiga - another hundred lyams, go check it out if there is not a single road within a radius of a hundred kilometers.

The elections are over, Churov waved his beard at the results, slogans can be curtailed, you can put on a stern face and boldly call for tightening your belts, since the enemy is not asleep and the crisis is storming our quiet harbor. You can safely gather in clubs and sing a song about the harsh years that are coming, well, this is instead of unnecessary and useless hospitals, roads, kindergartens and, funny to say, all the same damned square meters.