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A strong economy during a disaster is better than having a weak economy during a disaster. Having a strong infrastructure during a disaster is better than having a weak infrastructure during a disaster. Having an educated public during a disaster is better than having idiots for citizenry during a disaster.
I see nothing more here than "This is better than that" in response to everything I asked you. You have yet to prove what you're saying.
Military spending wouldn't have prevented 9/11. It won't prevent the next attack, whether it comes this year or in ten years or in fifty years. If the US wants to get through the next disaster, we need to build our core strength--and our core strength isn't our military. Not anymore.
The military IS part of our infrastructure! Ever heard of national defense? Guess what that is!
If we want to be relevant in today's world, much of the money budgeted to the military would be better spent on jobs, education, infrastructure, technology, and medicine.
We are already cutting down our military (thanks to the guy who may have spent some time in the Oval Office when he's not on vacation, posing for the cameras, playing golf, guest starring on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, or talking about his basketball brackets) and we're becoming less relevant in the world than ever. Why do you think dictators in the middle east continue doing what they're doing when we make threats? Ya think it's possible that it's because we're losing the ability to follow-up on those threats? No enemy of ours is going to stop any bad thing they're doing or plan to do to us if we lack the ability to stop them.
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