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Do this bother anyone else?

1. US Military spending has nearly doubled over the last 8 years.


2. We spend nearly 50% of taxes on military spending.




3. The US more than any other country and spends more than DOUBLE the total of the next 10 countries COMBINED.


Conclusion: We are spending too much money on defense that could be used for a lot of better things.

Can anyone explain why we need to be spending so much?

How will the legend of the age of trees
Feel, when the last tree falls in England?
When the concrete spreads and the town conquers
The country’s heart; when contraceptive
Tarmac’s laid where farm has faded,
Tramline flows where slept a hamlet,
And shop-fronts, blazing without a stop from
Dover to Wrath, have glazed us over?
Simplest tales will then bewilder
The questioning children, “What was a chestnut?
Say what it means to climb a Beanstalk,
Tell me, grandfather, what an elm is.
What was Autumn? They never taught us.”
Then, told by teachers how once from mould
Came growing creatures of lower nature
Able to live and die, though neither
Beast nor man, and around them wreathing
Excellent clothing, breathing sunlight –
Half understanding, their ill-acquainted
Fancy will tint their wonder-paintings
Trees as men walking, wood-romances
Of goblins stalking in silky green,
Of milk-sheen froth upon the lace of hawthorn’s
Collar, pallor in the face of birchgirl.
So shall a homeless time, though dimly
Catch from afar (for soul is watchfull)
A sight of tree-delighted Eden.

- C. S. Lewis

I came across this poem after hearing a band by the same name.

"And don't apologize for all the tears you've cried
You've been way too strong now for all your life" (full lyrics)