Raees wrote: If we spent more on education and health and less on defense, the nation would be better off.
That is a normal liberal response.
Do you believe it or not?
Not even a little bit. In inflation adjusted dollars education spending is up nearly 150% since the 1970's - education staffing is up over 70%, yet there has been little, if any, benefit, other than to unionized public workers, over that same period of time. Sometimes one has to conceded that the answer to the problem isn't simply to throw more money at it.
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That and diverting money from defense to education isn't going to lower the deficit spending. You actually have to not spend the dollars anymore in order to effect change in that number. If you take $500 Billion away from defense and spend it on education instead, you haven't realized any deficit reduction at all. You actually have to not spend that $500 Billion on anything at all in order to reduce the deficit - something I believe the left fails to appreciate on a fairly regular basis.
