Tell it to all the FReepers who balk at cutting medicare and social security. “It’s not an entitlement”. Yes, yes, it is.
Even here, medicare and social security > funding for the military.
Yes, unfortunately, that has been a painful education for me.
Your right of course That medicare and “social security” are unaffordably expensive “entitlement” but your also not doing justice to the fact that these entitlements have been sold to a lawless majority and forced upon the rest of us as “investments”. Much like a casino entices you to “invest” in their product.
Even then the Federal Government’s employees in black robes acknowledged that theses were merely taxes with no obligation on the part of Washington to keep it’s politicians political promises.
It mattered not then just as it matters not now for most people(the “mob”) hears only what their political leaders say and sees only what they get in the hear and now.
The whole point of a Constitutional republic was to severely limit what political leaders could do in the hear and now so that people would at least see the truth.
But when that Constitution was made subject to the sole discretion of 9 hand picked Federal employees in black robes it largely ceased to exist as any “law” ceased to exist when the one bound by it can simply choose to disregard his bindings.
So dispute efforts to keep up apperences reminiscent of the early Roman empire the Federal Constitution and the Federal republic it once defined are dead.
This fact could not be made more clear than the effective boundlessness of Washington as they themselves defined it.
We need to be preparing the political landscape for a Republican revolution, not continue to wast time & money playing their pointless power game.
Surely you must recognize that a sad but necessary part of that will involve the downsizing and/or dismantling the Federal military machine.
Like it or not this machine has in the past always proven to be little more than a tool of Washington, not liberty, and certainly not the now dead Constitution.
(When is the last time a military officers successfully refused an unconstitutional order by the president?)
The Constitution means nothing at all when it is so easily and callously swept aside by those who have sworn to uphold it. The oath theses men take is but a joke for most, and a self-serving joke for them who wear black.