Memorial Day 4

 As I am sure you guys are aware the USA spends more on defense then the next 10 military big spenders in the world.  Used to be the dems used to fight the reps to get more of that money to be spent on, you know, schools and roads and help out the poor, but lately they have begun to compete with with the reps to prove they are more patriotic, but whatever the dems propose the reps up it.

This was something I meant to get around to in the last couple posts, the awesome amount we pay the military and how little we get out of it.

But then along came Ukraine, the just war.  What could be more just than repelling a country that wanted to conquer you?  And what greater villain than Putin?  What better place to put those expensive weapons that have been in mothballs since we paid that big fat wad of cash for them?  

I began to think, maybe it was a good idea that we seemingly wasted that dough over all those years because now we had plenty of weapons to give to our allies who were fighting to defeat evil dictatorship?

I know you guys are not inside baseballers like me, but that budget deficit fight was a barn burner.  I really didn't think they would get there before the deadline but they did.

Unfair that the dems always give the reps a free pass on this while the reps always fight the dems and go on to spend like drunken sailors, but maybe that is an argument for another day.  For the nonce we had to give up something to keep the country from getting hit with a hammer, so we compromised.

What we compromised on was we gave them a freeze on all spending except of course defense.  That's not good enough for the freedom caucus maniacs and they are looking for some mechanism to spend even more on the military.

But like I said I am inclined to be lenient on this because maybe that largess goes to a good cause, namely the Ukes.

Except it isn't.  The freedom caucus doesn't want to spend on the Ukes anymore, some kind of fealty for Trump's warm and fuzzies towards Putin I suppose.  So they want to spend tons of dough on an institution but hold it in abeyance when it comes time to use it for what it is supposed to be used for.

What was that book that was so popular among the Birchers about sixty years ago?  None Dare Call It Treason?  Sounds like treason to me.