Were you sort of financial backer before then?
We all are. It's called paying taxes and Government charges.
Unfortunately we're naive/gullible/stupid/uninformed/innocent (insert/delete as applicable) enough to expect those taxes to be spent wisely, with priorities and responsibility.
Not blown out the arse of a pig-ignorant, clueless, utterly-out-of-control Government Department led by a pig-ignorant, clueless, cloud-dwelling moron who's at his best throwing even more of our money and assets at third-world African countries, largely just to get his mug in the paper.
Roll on the election and hopefully the coming of any man wise enough to smash the DOI and it's entourage of leeching, employment justifying management and Civil Servants into manageable pieces.
Dear, dear, dear. Unbelievable, nasty post.
But satisfyingly accurate