Thread from a few days ago for comments:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3294256/posts
The real basis of this essay is that the welfare state needs the military’s budget.
There are a few other (good) points thrown in.
That has always been the case. That's how we wound up defending socialist Europe.
A few years ago, I had a conversation with a die-hard Leftist. I explained the 18% military budget figure. He had to go research it himself.
He never said a word about the military budget vs. social budget again.