When those on the right talk about limiting the size of government, they exempt defense. Defense spending is a textbook use of Keynesian stimulus to keep the economy going while cutting social programs that do not benefit the rich.

You might want to know that a big part of the military budget goes into building and sustaining a secret fleet of spaceships. Gary McKinnon found pages of crew rosters headlined as Extraterrestrial Officers. Lots of eyewitnesses have testified to seeing TR3B's, Sport Models and even some very big craft that were not Alien-grade technology. Curiously, it's the secrecy and security that costs so much. Just what these vessels are doing is the really big question. We are so not ready to take our brand of friendship off-world.

Always been a fan of Fareed's.

He always is in front of others