Its not about finances, its about repression. Repression is and has always been the goal. Destroying the country's fiances has been the means.
Why do you think FEDGOV has been building up the DHS, TSA, NSA, Patriot Act, NDAA, militarized police state the past 25 years?
It would appear, Count, that the military is needed here to fight the evil, corrupted American socialist government.
Make no mistake my friends, this menacing government is deliberately building up its defenses against US openly in order to goad us into making a move against it. We are in such dire straits that killing off the self-replicating Muslims in foreign lands isn’t as important as dealing with the crisis here.
Our lousy, stinking Congress and our corrupted system of courts is complicit in this as they stand idly by and do nothing although, to their credit judges appointed by our idiot leftist presidents are very busy.
Madrid, in 1936, continues to come to mind.