What I find to be entertaining, is the folks who come here to lament our various expenses, saying we just can’t do it any longer. Foreign aid, wars...
Lumped together these won’t reach half what our outlay in welfare has been.
Since 2000, we have spent approximately $7.5 trillion on welfare. We have not spent $3.75 trillion on the other combined.
So when folks come here professing to only care about the plight of the United States financially, I just smile and think, suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure you do.
$7.5 trillion, and it doesn’t even hit your radar. Our military spending on foreign wars, now there’s a serious problem.
No, actually it isn’t. It’s the price of keeping the world free. Who benefits from that the most?
I’d say a global super-power does. It’s citizen do. Keeping the high seas safe for passage, and keeping terrorists in check as much as possible, those benefit us all, whether you realize it or not.
All I can tell you is get familiar with world history.
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it’s punishment.