Where there is free education and health care there comes a cost of tax payers money

@HoraceGreenley exactly when it is free it costs others more

@MrsMONAKanful

@HoraceGreenley Especially bail-outs and subsides to greedy corporations and corrupt defense contractors stealing the tax-payers money.

@badminton
Who peed in your Corn Flakes?

@HoraceGreenley I'm just a patriotic American who feels a duty to point out things that look wrong to me. For example, giving greedy corporations tax cuts which they then use just for stock buy-backs is wrong, Then Republicans say we must cut social security and medicare

Over-spending on the military just to enrich corrupt defense contractors is wrong.

@badminton
First. The US doesn't "over spend" on its military. Secondly military contractors are not corrupt. Third, who employs people if corporations don't?

Your viewpoint is childish

@HoraceGreenley I disagree. The U.S. military budget is greater than the next top ten military powers [b]combined.[/b] Hundreds of $billions of defense spending is unaccounted for. Defense contractors over-charge us tax-payers by 100-400% Congress needs to impose a yearly independent audit of defense spending.

We have socialism in the U.S.A. - for corporations and billionaires. the rest of us get unregulated capitalism. Corporations get huge bail-outs, subsidies and tax breaks. They bribe our congress people with campaign donations. That needs to stop.

@badminton
Economic studies indicate that the optimal peacetime military spending is 5% of GDP. This is not an opinion. For the US that means over $800 billion annually.

This is irrefutable.

How does a defense contractor over charge?

The US is largely an economy built on capitalism.