Seems a good time to ask: If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or ...

[Scuba]

... care for our elderly, then just what is it the defense department is defending.

[woo me with science]

1. Corporate profits. nt

[LiberalEsto]

2. The 1% and the Corporations, naturally

They don't give a crap about the rest of us.

[Octafish]

3. Corporate Profits.

For the Have-Mores.

[dawg]

4. Those who can.

It's defending those of us who *can* afford to educate our children, heal our sick, and care for our elderly. In other words, the 1%.

[Autumn]

5. Profits for a certain class.

Nothing else.

[leftstreet]

6. The Affordable Corporate Insurance Act will heal the $ick

They need to mandate education and housing next



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[n2doc]

7. nor can we help support home heating oil aid for the elderly

At the cost of one 'minor' intervention. We have people dying each winter in this country, but the important thing is they didn't die of poison gas.

[The2ndWheel]

8. The US military is the developed world's military

Only US citizens pay for it(while citizens in other countries get to pay for their health care), which is why there is no governing body that gets to tell the US Government no, but that's what you get for the US military being the last one standing after the 20th century.

It's not so much about defending America, as it is about defending the international system, whatever there is of it, that America helped shape as a result of outlasting every other government that was in the game.

[Soylent Brice]

9. k&r

[bluedeathray]

10. Unless the poor and sick can afford lobbyists

They're fucked

Bombs and bullets on the other hand...

This is the America we've gone into debt for.

Unless we're willing to get off our fucking asses and fix it, the MIC can stand any criticism on earth. What's left of earth anyways.