Social Spending & National Defense
Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico claims that “there’s never enough money for schools or healthcare or veterans,” but “there’s always enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world.”
IN FACT, U.S. federal, state & local governments spend 5.3 times more on social programs (like education and healthcare) than on national defense. Since 1960, federal spending on social programs has grown from 21% of all federal outlays to 60%, while spending on national defense has shrunk from 53% to 17%.
Moreover, the protection of people’s life and liberty is the core duty of all levels of government in the United States, and the U.S. Constitution doesn’t even permit the federal government to establish social programs. This Constitutional principle has been routinely flouted since Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt threatened to stack the Supreme Court with six added justices in 1937.
