1. The American Defense Industry spends over $910 Billion/year and is saturated with corruption/corporate welfare and fraudulent weapons program that benefit large corporation at the expense of tax payers. It is supposed to defend America but it does a better job of funding the rich.
2. The most inefficient portion of the $7 Trillion federal government budget is the defense budget, yet the GOP “DOGE” group already indicated that it will not be under scrutiny. The Military Industrial Complex has always been a strong supporter of the Republican Party when its time for election fund raising. Clearly, Republicans will ignore the defense budget and attack the most vulnerable in the social welfare portion of the budget like cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and ObamaCare.
3. America spends 2.5 times the amount China spends on their defense budget. Our population is only 330 million. China’s population is 1.4 million. America is 4% of the world’s population but spends nearly 40% of the world’s total expenditure on defense. We dominate the world in war armaments!
4. The amount America spends on public social welfare programs is actually much below average compared to the other 37 developed nations of the world. We are in the bottom 1/3 as a percentage of our GDP. Disgraceful for such a rich nation! Thus the amount we spend on social welfare is grossly “insufficient”. Noting our rate of homelessness, high levels of crime/poverty and our growing mental health crisis, clearly the working class desperately needs more help, NOT less funding! Yet, Republicans are destined to make massive cuts to working class benefits via their radical DOGE group led by billionaires! This is clearly unfair, unjust and immoral.