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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
Must say something about the rest of the world if us dumb Americans can dominate the world.
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I think you just demonstrated more than any poll could have done. Apart from which:
1. We claim not to want to dominate the world, so how smart is it that the US accounts for more than 40% of the total that every country in the world spends on armed forces?
2. How smart is that we spend so much money, yet while we are bogged down in two weak countries most Americans couldn't find on the map, we are probably incapable of a third such occupation.
3. How smart is it that we rank so poorly in areas such as education and health care, yet more than 50% of our annual discretionary spending (the amount "left over" after mandatory spending to comply with laws covering such things as social security benefits, medicare and paying the interest on the national debt) goes to the military.
Actually, since we have the most expensive per capita education system in the world and ditto health care system, their problems are obviously not lack of funds. Nevertheless, the point about disproportional spending remains valid.