Yeah. Outsourced or not, I just can't remember our government having done anything well in my lifetime, except maybe winning traditional military battles against third world countries, which we also outsourced (then subsequently we lose the peace and create even more hostility, ripe for more outsourcing). The whole setup is just utterly incompetent, all the way up to the congress and president and supreme court... I don't know how it got this bad. Probably inevitable given the capture by for-profit entities and ideologues hell-bent on zero sum individualism.

The system is so incompetent and corrupt it lacks even the rudimentary feedback loops that might've otherwise allowed it to break the cycle. Seems like the only way for it to get any better is to completely collapse under its own incompetence. Egads.