pretty much everything.... funding contracts for re-building areas that the military helped destroy for instance.

I've started to think that almost everything is an industrial complex - military industrial complex, poverty industrial complex, health industrial complex.

We spend nearly a trillion dollars on medicaid every year. I don't know the breakdown, but insurance companies and hospital complexes tend to come out very nicely, and poor people in the US are sicker than ever. When you add to that the fact that inflation is a deeply regressive tax, you get a terrible situation where poor people can't afford their own healthcare and are nominally getting something "free" but in fact are essentially funding the corporations that profit from medicaid.

That's fraudulent, imho.