You're not really responding to him at all. And the whataboutism regarding the military is irrelevant. Assume there is limited money to spend things on. How do

You're not really responding to him at all. And the whataboutism regarding the military is irrelevant. Assume there is limited money to spend things on. How do you decide how to spend that money? Because using your arguments, you could spend all the money on astronomy and that would fine.