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Originally Posted by Eric5273
I always find it confusing why people think it's the govenrment's obligation to protect the people from military attack, but not from anything else. If people die from starvation, lack of health care, poisoning, in a car accident, in an unsafe workplace, etc. -- none of that should be the government's concern. But for the 0.000001% of the people who die from terrorism -- for that tiny tiny tiny percentage, we should spend 50+% of our tax money on that concern.
Yeah, that makes tons of sense.  |
Your plan is great if we lived on planet Utopia. Use history as your guide and you will see we live on a planet filled with conflict and shifting World powers.
How do you think we (the United States) managed to get where we are today? That would depend on what snapshot of history you use as a reference.
Here is one answer of many:
We outspent the Russians.
I realize that your Planet Utopia has no conflict and everyone looks out for each other; however, last time I looked we were the planet Earth were conflict still exists and World History dictates the Strong Survive.