It is not free, everyone has to pitch in, in the rest of the world everyone pays VAT and some pay income tax (by the way not me at least not income tax, I am unemployed, but there is no welfare in Honduras so I have to make do with what I scrape up), if instead of financing the military with that money what is financed is education and health we would be so much better off don't you think. I mean just in the US the military eats up about 1 trillion a year.
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The US military expense does eat up a lot. That's for sure. Though it may not be agreed with, it is with good reason in my opinion. Education in America, because that's what I know, was a lot cheaper when the government did not back student loans. When people paid for education with what they had instead of borrowing, education as a whole was much cheaper. Even then, I believe education is still inexpensive if the student is wise about where they obtain their education. For instance, I earned my Bachelor's and Masters degrees for less than $6,000 each. I was selective of the colleges I went to. My brother left school with $260K in student loans, having paid $130K out of pocket from a property he sold. I have a bro-in-law who has over $400K in student loans. Both went to very prestigious universities; however, there are plenty of professionals who have the same education or very similar to it for 1/3 of what they paid. I found a medical school that is $15K/year instead of $20K/semester. People get it in their heads that they have to go to the "name" schools. It just isn't so. Education is affordable. Government subsidizing loans make schools more expensive because they get a blank check to charge more. If they subsidized schools instead of the loans, the education would be cheaper, too, but that shouldn't be the role of government, in my opinion. As for health, there's no such thing as free health care, unless you're making your doctors slaves and their university instructors slaves, too...which I disagree with. If you're willing to go to 12 years of school after graduating from high school, I think that you should get paid more than someone who picked up a liberal studies associates degree after 2 years. It's the law of supply and demand. Just because you want to live longer and the ability to help you live longer exists does not mean you are entitled to that operation/procedure or that doctor's knowledge/skill...again...my opinion.
Just a few minutes ago I read on the Guardian that some Nobel prize winners are asking for every country in the world to reduce their military budgets. I always found it kind of dumb during the cold war each side spending more and more making the other side spend the same amount to in the end reach a stalemate, if one attacked the other it was the end of the world. Would it not have been the same not to spend anything? I mean you were spending on weapons you knew you would never use. Looks like the elites main money horse is making countries and people buy weapons.
There's definitely a point to be made about how much is spent on weapons, but to spend nothing on weapons would also leave a country vulnerable for invasion as one country starts to secretly stockpile while the rest are unaware. I keep a gun near my bed. I don't need a stockpile...I just need one. That's how I see it anyway.
I don't use guns, probably shoot myself instead of whom I intend to shoot. I have no problem with guns, if you can use them and want one, have one, we can legally have three here in Honduras. In the rural areas there are literally tens of thousands of AK47, don't know if they are still working they are left overs from Nicaragua, but I guess most do work they are supposed to be nearly indestructible.