Demand-side economics is not a Keynesian conspiracy. Furthermore, we’re talking about demand for unskilled and semi-skilled labor. I’m not sure why you want to keep these people on welfare, rather than putting them to work, but I guess that’s your special brand of conspiratorial thinking.

No. You’re an uneducated idiot that doesn’t understand the “guns to butter” fraud that has been foisted in the working class.

Are you seven years old? Stop speaking in fairy tales and look at the federal budget and the plight of the lower middle class.

First, the only part of the “death machine” that actually inflicts death is the ordinance itself—the bullet or the bomb or whatever. An F-22 is just the world’s best single-seat commercial jet aircraft, until you add the ordinance. An overwhelming majority of the “death machine” is actually useful stuff, particularly…

The trouble is that all of the international agencies and treaties exist to protect wildlife, MPA’s, execute anti-piracy, police the EEZ’s, and do search and rescue.

I read the data, but more importantly, I’ve also read all of the articles about the terrorist attacks this year, including the special forces operations. I’m also aware of the anti-terror quarantines the military must do, as well as tracking smugglers who turn of their tracking gear, as well as policing MPA’s and…

You’re wasting your time. Our revenue per capita is comparable or better than other G20 nations.

I have bad news. The world does not work according to facile, surface-level economic commentary.

You’re mixing political themes. We subsidize defense for NATO members, specifically the NATO members that don’t meet the required 2%. The lazy NATO members tend to reward us by using China as a mercantilist backdoor into the US economy.

I understand your trepidation, but if you look at how little work the US does around Western Africa (Nigeria specifically), the Persian Gulf, and Singapore, it’s difficult to claim the US is only focused on oil. We’d probably like to focus a lot more on anti-piracy in those regions, but they are not our territorial…

You are ignorant. It’s not amusing. Read the budget, and stop betraying your country.

If you’re ridiculous enough to believe that the lack of piracy in the Americas and Europe is just a happy coincidence, there is nothing we can do for you.

I provided a link to an international agency website that is responsible for monitoring, mapping, and logging oceanic piracy for the benefit of shipping commerce and global tourism. Not only do you fail to read or understand the data, but the existence of the website and the associated agency are not enough to…

Honda reliability is more myth than reality these days. The company has fallen on hard times.

I’m not interested in what people think. A suburban police force that seemingly does nothing important is still a critical asset. Justifying a hyper-professional police force is a matter of pointing to crime and problems in other neighborhoods.

Education is not federally enumerated. Furthermore, we don’t spend too little on education. We spend much more than most OECD countries.

The data is from 2017, which should be obvious regardless of what the header says because the attacks are happening around Somalia. Click the 2016 and 2015 maps to see full year data.

Considering the founding fathers didn’t wet themselves when they created the Continental Army, it’s safe to assume they were comfortable with the notion of national professional armies as it pertains to providing common defense.

Considering that Bush and Obama created a 500,000 sq mile national monument in the South Pacific, I’d say we protect wildlife (since it’s our territory) quite regularly.

That is the libertarian argument, but it is hard to deny the benefits of economies of scale, R&D, and military engineers entering private industry upon discharge. It’s also hard to argue drastic reduction in revenue, when we’ve been borrowing against transportation, national parks and other departments that actually…