How much is enough?

[Kozel]

How much is enough?

Empire of bases keeps growing.

http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2012/07/15/us-empire-of-bases-grows/

Never mind that US runs deficit of FIVE trillions in ONE year!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05-18/federal-deficit-accounting/55179748/1

[walt cowan]

74 thousand dead.

[cowboy1964]

I WANT the U.S. to remain the world's only superpower.

And that deficit was almost entirely "entitlements", not defense, so why even bring it up?

[Kozel]

I WANT the U.S. to remain the world's only superpower.

You do not see that this country is destroying itself, destroying monetary system and economy in general in order to keep expanding influence all over the world?

Oh well. When collapse comes (and soon) you will get what you wanted.

[Kozel]

And that deficit was almost entirely "entitlements", not defense, so why even bring it up?

Funding for both comes from one big pocket. The very pocket that has five trillion sized hole in it.