There is no doubt that the Bush administration ran up too much debt while in office, with that said Obama has doubled down in 2 years what it took Bush 8 years to do. As far as your argument about weapons.... defense is only about 5-7% of the total budget where social programs demand much more.
Uh, no. Defense spending--the kind of services needed to offer protection against modern threats from cellular terrorist groups (FBI Counterterrorism)--is around
.25% of the budget.
2.7 billion / 1.06 trillion =.00254717
Military budget of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Offense spending--the tanks, jets, etc. which are completely useless against clandestine terror cells but only good for
initiating agression--is what makes up the DOD budget, and the total annual spending for that, including the annual interest on past wars-of-agression (Iraq, Vietnam, etc.) spending, is
79% of the annual budget, according to the GAO. . .
Military budget of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(721.3 billion + 114.8 billion) / 1.060 trillion = .788774
As far as your comment about weapons being worthless I'd have issue with that. If this country couldnt defend itself
The US
cannot defend itself, as was proven on 9/11. The fact that a bunch of flunkie terrorists succesfully attacked the financial capital of the US and encountered
no resistance proves that. . .
. . .and what's pathetic is that it happened despite the US having a "defense" budget
several times more than most other countries--a rather obvious indication of
wasteful spending.
Concerning the comment about dictators I'd like to point out that Democrats have backed dictators just like republicans and sometimes its actually the better choice. I'd think you would see this if the muslim brotherhood ever took control in Egypt. Sometimes the only chioce is between bad & worse.
Taxpayer $$ (current or future) should
never be used to back dictators or take sides in foreign political conflicts,
period.
Unfortunately, this consistently happens because of idiot voters who keep putting the mainstream party idiots back in power, and, without exception, the GOP is the
worst offender in this category.