Snide non-sequitur.
As Hitchens says, this is not a zero-sum game.
Now if Kerry really wanted to get a rousing cheer from his dimented audience last night, he should have said that money spent in Iraqi schools should be spent instead on U.S. teachers' salaries. That really would have had his NEA audience howling at the moon.
What do you mean? The poster asked if Federal money was used to build fire-stations in this country. The answer is yes, and thus was an example.