Do we now? Look at the cost of the military and its uses. I didn't make government spend on that. Look at all the paranoid post 9/11 security measures. What pro

Do we now? Look at the cost of the military and its uses. I didn't make government spend on that. Look at all the paranoid post 9/11 security measures. What proportion of your money is being spent on those things compared to, say, education, health or even welfare? Who actually asked for all that? To be fair, I suppose it could be called job creation. We don't make the government spend too much money, they chose to spend all that money because they are backed by the people who benefit from the spending of all that money, and its not the working or middle class. Remember those discussions about how bent and corrupt lobbying is? They are the people getting your money. Not "we". Makes me laugh, all the US revulsion to socialism, while the US has one of the biggest state funded job creation strategies in the capitalist west. Its just that it is called the military rather than anything too socialist sounding. It also get the poor an education, at the risk of their lives. Shame its about killing and paranoia, rather than creating and earning. Yes, the military drive some innovation, but man, really? In the 21st century?