Reply #84: Well the US can't exert global hegemony on a shoe-string military budget:

[indepat]

funny how those who govern are willing to spend trillions of dollars purportedly to keep us safe from terra, but in the next moment, approve cynically-depraved budget cuts that will doom countless tens of thousands of the old, frail, and poor to needless pre-mature deaths, all in the collegiate spirit of a euphemistically-termed "shared sacrifice," but actually malevolent hypocrisy. :patriot: