@heidilifeldman I have no doubt that they blew through billions of wasteful spending. But why is this article wasting time talking about expenditures in the tens of thousands? Those are trivial for a country with a third of a billion people, or as part of an $800 billion budget, and don't provide any real insight into where the money is going.

Even people who are good at math tend not to have any intuition for large numbers. Better to divide by population. So if the government wastes a billion dollars, that's $3 per American.