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scaeagles, the government is made up of tens of thousands of people, in hundreds upon hundreds of bureaucracies. It just so happens that your claimed Only Federally Mandated function ... the military function ... is not to be trusted in any nation of the world, at any time in history - for the obvious reasons that its purpose of applying weaponry to cause death might attract a certain type of person.
Those people who might deal with health rather than death, though certainly not 100% unsusceptible to corruption, might have a bent that's somewhat the opposite of the brutal destruction business of the "Defense" deparment (euphemistically renamed from the more apt "War Department" only a few years before I was born). And, in fact, remove the profit motive from anything - - including War - - and the incidence of corruption will decrease dramatically.
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