Ted, Oh my God, we are spending 6 times more than the next largest spender. How can you even begin to say the problem is how we spend the money within the defense arena? Americans go without food so we can have enough money for bombs. How insane is that?
a) Defense spending as a percentage of GDP isn't that high. Compare that with most despotic nations out there, and I think the situation isn't as distorted as you make it.
b) The problem with any federal government agency is how we spend the money. Defense is no different. Same thing with CIA, Homeland Security, housing and urban development, NASA, and agriculture subsidies.
c) Americans are more overweight than ever, so that puts a lid on your theory that we're diverting money from food to defense.
Its too bad your idealism does not extend to the concept of a world where one country does not have to spend so much on defense. Paranoia is a terrible disease and it is exacting a terrible toll on our budget and the world.
Actually, that's EXACTLY what my ideal is. Maybe if we spent a little more on taking out the sources of inhumanity, despotism, torture, and terrorism, we can actually make progress toward that ideal.
Or we could all pray that none of this is necessary, but that all depends on where our faith in God is.
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