11-22-2016, 01:08 PM
(11-22-2016, 12:11 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(11-22-2016, 11:50 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: In return for our taxes? We sure don't get the level of government service they get in Europe.
What we do get is a monster military. It's also not just the fighting forces, either, we have the logistic support to use our force most anywhere in the world. That's expensive. That just seems to be our priority, that we put fighting strength ahead of our People.
Precisely. The US military monolith accounts for over half of discretionary government spending. Forget "entitlement" programs, such as Social Security. The military-intelligence-surveillance complex, that is the real Third Rail in American politics. Politicians (including Trump, Hillary and, sadly, even Sanders) dare not touch that rail in their policy proposals. Only with sequestration was military spending curtailed at all. But just you watch. When Trumponomics blows another hole in our federal budget, the deficit hawks will put social programs on the chopping block once again. It's the same old story.