In the US, vastly more people die in ways that are amplified by poverty than die in combat. The idea that welfare programs are not "existential" to the people w

In the US, vastly more people die in ways that are amplified by poverty than die in combat. The idea that welfare programs are not "existential" to the people whose lives depend on them is strange. The US spends vastly more on defense than any other nation on the planet. Why not spend 2x what we already spend? 10x? Surely at some point "we have a larger military spending than the 10 countries with the next highest military spending combined" is enough to mitigate the "existential threat."