I hate to interrupt a good antisocialism rant, but defense takes up 20% of federal spending, tied with Social Security as the costliest single program.
Check again Medicare and Medicaid are by far the costliest entitlement.Defense and social security overruns together do not add up to the massive annual 900 billion dollar medicare/medicaid hole. Defense is not a redistributive entitlement payable to individuals.SS and medicaid are. Apples and oranges.
We weren’t talking about what is or is not a redistributive entitlement program, nor about “overruns.” You said social programs eat up nearly every penny of federal spending, and that defense is left to beg for its meals. Which is absolutely false. Like I said, defense eats up 20% of the budget. That is, if there were a budget.
If you wanna talk about “unfunded liabilities,” that’s another matter. Entitlement programs are on the hook for piles of cash that will in the near future dwarf defense spending and give us a $100 trillion-plus debt. But that is yet to come.