Here’s the thing … we’ve spent $7 trillion (that’s with a T) sending our military bullies all over the world for the past 18 years. $400 billion per year. You should be complaining about tax money being bled from CA to support things like military thuggery abroad, the “War on Some Drugs”, etc, not about the money actually being invested in the futures of Americans.
Say Harvard costs $70,000 per year. So a million bucks could send about 15 people to Harvard for a year. Multiply that by 400000 and that $400 billion could give 6 million students a year a full ride to Harvard. Isn’t that better than buying corpses, cripples, and mental illnesses with that money? (Public universities tend to be cheaper, so the real number is higher than 6 million. Much higher.)
Fuck militarism, fuck endless war. Oh yeah. We killed some al Qaeda bigwig last month. So what? We’ve been killing people like him for almost two decades … it doesn’t seem to stop the next PoS from emerging. It’s like a sick game of Whack-a-Mole, except that we never want to win. Endless war is too profitable for the defence contractors and their pet whores in Congress.
Imagine a country where promising students from lower-income backgrounds could go to college and get a career without selling their souls to the military…
