black kid

Yes. Exactly. You see, we have this pesky thing called the Constitution. It specifies & mandates that the government shall allocate funds for the defence of our country.
You show me where it mandates that the taxpayers should fund health care for anyone. I'll save you time...it doesn't.
Now, if you were to mandate that the gov't cut spending on crap like roads to nowhere,private airports for senators, subsidizing Bidens private choo-choo, taking care of people who are here ILLEGALLY, etc, ad nauseum...perhaps we can talk about it again.

That's because the next six either spend nothing on defense, rely on the US to protect their bacon or all their Military hardware is made by slaves and their soldiers are not actually paid.

I made pretty good dang money in my career so speak for yourself or go join. I received two free college degrees too not that they amount to much.

You do know I was not referring to the US right

Then BE MORE SPECIFIC. I was.

This is for all of y'all. First, I worked, I paid taxes, I served 9 years in the Air Force, picked up a couple degrees along the wya, I worked some more and retired, so I could troll people like you.

Yes we have this thing called the Constitution. In the Preamble it says, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

See that part about the General Welfare? That's why we have food stamps, housing benefits, and all the other "welfare" programs that the Constitution doesn't specifically mention either. It doesn't mention things like the interstate highway system, the Internet which was developed as ARPANET by DARPA, and a zillion other things the federal government has paid for.

Society as a whole already pays for health care or lack thereof one way or the other. People who use ERs when they finally get sick enough, but can't pay the bill. Lost productivity when people are too sick to work who wouldn't have been if they had health insurance. Valuable employees who die for the same reason. Its just a question of how we pay for it.

But here's the real question. If the US is "THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH" then why can't we do what the 32 other countries behind us on the economic ladder manage to do, and do it better than them? Why do we throw our hands up and go, "Waaaaa. We can't do that. That would be too hard. Waaaa"?

Aww, gee thanks. I love it when I start my day off with a compliment.

We spend the kind of money we spend on defense not because we need to, but because if the military-industrial complex. It's a cushy deal all around for Big Defense, especially if your company manufactures the latest military hardware that the Pentagon buys up like so many shiny new toys.

Oh "We" can afford it. GET A F**KIN JOB!!!!!