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The military is notorious for buying extremely overpriced items. Even if we leave the fact that there is no constitutional mandate for the USA to act as the world doughnut muncher-only to act in self-defense-out of the discussion, this purchasing of grossly overpriced items-even when done in the context of actual defense-is atrocious. For all that liberals are accused of emotionalist logical fallacies (and trust me, I know all to well how guilty they are of this), conservatives engage in an emotionalism that is just as irrational and pathetic. Tell a conservative that it is fucking bullshit that the DoD buys hammers and toilet seats that cost three figures, and he will, in a knee-jerk fashion (just like a liberal), accuse you of hating this country, military personnel, their families, and baby Jesus, quite often while foaming at the mouth. This is nothing more than a mirror image version of political correctness, which I thoroughly hate.

Often, these fools will state that DoD spending is well under half of the budget, and a small fraction of the GDP, while dishonestly ignoring Department of State military spending (free military shit given to allied dictatorships), DHS military spending (self-explanatory), NASA military spending (various satellites), DoE military spending (nuclear arsenal maintenance, among other things), and so on. So if you want to repeat these tired, stale, asinine old canards, I'm not interested in playing your moronic dodging game.

We just have to wait for Greatest Generation, Silent Generation, and Baby Boomer scum* to die off. Generations X and younger don't seem to be as sickeningly indoctrinated with mindless military worship as those generations do. Maybe by 2040 or so hundreds of billions of dollars won't be wasted every year on things that do not make this country any safer. So for all you teabaggers (Ron Paul faction excluded, as I am well aware that a small percentage of tea party people do not deserve to be called tea baggers because they genuinely oppose all wasteful spending), just know that there are tens of millions of people who see through your hypocritical bullshit.

* Not every member of these generations is scum, just the members who desperately want to drag the world back to the middle ages.