If -- IF -- we are to get serious about doing some nation building here at home, we need to seriously re-arrange our priorities away from making war. We need a good, well-trained, well-supplied military, certainly. We emphatically need to take better care of our veterans than what we do now, as well as serving the needs of their families.
But we do not need to spend money in this grotesque disproportion. Clearly, emphatically, one of the reasons that voters rejected Romney in the 2012 election cycle was that the nation did not want to enlarge military/industrial complex spending, or the wasteful and MORE expensive Republican independent contractor exploitation (often no-bid) that is part of our current system. Neo-con militant foreign policy was completely repudiated, as it should be. It is one of the primary causes of our financial crisis with debt and the deficit.
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