Medicare for all would cost more than what we are paying now. We need to stop avoiding this fact.

[Doubledee]

247. Your opinion is duly noted

As are those of many economists who oppose your views. Certainly without the private sector the internet would have remained a seldom used military toy unavailable to the general public. Further, every dollar spent on our bloated defense budget means money unavailable to important items that remain unaddressed. I recall that even such as Milton Friedman once noted that military spending does not return to the economy anywhere near the same productivity as does spending on infrastructure.

While you may enjoy seeing parades of uniforms and military hardware, you may thrill to the slaughter of innocents around the world, marvel at the wholesale destruction by our drones, others see a crumbling infrastructure, an educational system bankrupt and failing our children,. all because we are spending absurd amonts of money on the military, primarily because the lobbyist own our legislators, not because we need to spend that money in the interests of the people of this nation.

Here is a link, one among many, from an opposing opinion to your own:

http://www.context.org/iclib/ic20/chapman/

Here is a quote you might have seen before, from a certain five star general who knows whereof he speaks:

"Every gun that is made,every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone, it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under clouds of war it is humanity hanging on a cross or iron."
Dwight David Eisenhower