Social Democracy crowds out the great things government used to do

One of the sad things about our bankrupt bribery state is that all of the robbing Peter to pay Paula and vice versa has squeezed out the great and important things that our government used to have the money to do, like R&D and great public works.  In some cases the crowding out could be deadly, in 1859 a solar storm wiped out the nascent telegraph network.  A similar storm today would wipe out much of our satellite and above ground wireless network.  It should be a priority of our government to harden our society from these existential threats.  Instead we're blowing it on triple cost, same results schooling, double paid bureaucrats and bribes to the senior lobby.