Question

I went up on pilgrimage and saw huge sukkahs that, according to what was written there and what an acquaintance told me, were built by government ministries such as the Ministry for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee, Social Resilience, Culture, and maybe also Jerusalem and Heritage. Inside there was a huge staff handing out, for free, an abundance of cookies, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cola, and fine wine, with lively music. Giant signs everywhere, and it looked like money was being poured out in tremendous abundance. We are talking about tens of thousands of celebrants, multiplied by all the intermediate days of the festival—enormous sums from taxpayers' money. My heart ached especially at the distribution of all this abundance (waste?) when I remember that they cut back on fortification for the north, cut back for the elderly, and cut back in clear welfare and health areas that would seemingly be more necessary than abundant wine and cakes for festival celebrants. It seems to me either unreasonable, or perhaps even corruption. (Someone there whispered to me that a lot of pockets got fat from all the mess there, but I don't know that for sure, and that's not my main claim.) Am I right?