We already have the money for social programs. We just choose to spend it on war instead of on people.
Because the system of exploitation benefits when it has a strong military enforcement arm, and it also benefits when its underclass is perpetually desperate.
we already have the money for single payer, tax funded universal health care, too. currently it’s referred to as ‘profits’ and ‘shareholder value’.
Because, unfortunately, war means more profit for unscrupulous profiteers.
Because “national security” means protection from external threats. Internal matters would be “national health”, or similar.
Like disease, propaganda, supply chain issues, election interference.
It would be nice if we focused on any of these existential threats, instead of just the threat of “brown children in sandy countries”
Having a healthy population to recruit from seems pretty important to me. The US ran into this issue at the onset of both world wars.
Then again modern wars might need a bunch of keyboard jockeys.
It also means stripping away rights. Same thing as “protecting the children.”
Privacy? Why do you want that? You must be a terrorist or a pedophile. Only they want privacy.
You don’t wanna invade Iraq? You must support Al Qaeda, and hate the children the terrorists want to hurt.
You want to ensure teen can do as they please without parents breathing down their neck? I dunno, that sounds like you want them to be brainwashed into being queer.
It would help our economy so much as well not only to remove the connection with work but also just to remove the burden in general and let people concentrate on health.
This is why.
Because the American upper classes feel it’s worth it for them to pay for a large, advanced military and surveillance state, but they don’t think it’s worth it for them to pay for “other people’s healthcare.” They’re not enlightened enough to recognize that we all benefit when we all contribute to the health of the nation. The same is true of education, housing, and other universal necessities. I hope that enlightenment will one day come to the United States, but it’s not looking good.
Because, in this context, they are using security to mean the opposite of insecurity. They want to cure national insecurity, and the only way to do that is to “prove you have the bigger dick”. And since they already know from practice that they probably don’t, they have to find some other way to prove it.
Why would the poors join up if their families didn’t need Tricare? The bennies are a primary draw, they can’t hand that shit out to everyone
They should just change the name to
NATIONAL INSECURITY
Because the system is made to make money for weapons manufacturers. War is good, not war is bad.
Everybody talks about National Security…
What about National Prosperity?
Leukemia isn’t going to sink our Dara
More healthcare doesn’t make billions of $/year for 4 corporations that own our government and who dictate our foreign and domestic policies.
