We spend $858 billion a year on “national security,” while millions are not secure in their homes, secure in their jobs, secure they’ll get healthcare if they get sick, or secure that they will have enough food to eat, clean water to drink, or clean air to breathe. We need a radical reassessment of what the phrase “national security” should mean. It’s not enough to know another country won’t do you in, if all manner of things right here at home just might.

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I understand we spend more than that on interest payments on America’s debt. Forget students, doesn’t America need debt cancellation?
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The world is not a nursery, Marianne. You do not understand what being the world reserve currency requires or the inestimable bounty and benefits that it confers on Americans. Again, this is why you’re a lightweight.
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The government's only proper job is to uphold and to protect individual rights, not by lording over people and businesses to provide them with goodies they cannot afford: courses.aynrand.org/works/ma…

Man’s Rights

This essay was originally published in the April 1963 issue of The Objectivist Newsletter and later anthologized in The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966 and 1967).

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National security is a Constitutional requirement. All the nonsense you spout is just economic illiteracy.
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Yes that’s what communism really looks like
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Yet another worn-out, trite Kremlin chestnut: “Abolish national security…” 🙄
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Agreed
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At this point, it'd be better to hear specific actions rather than general sentiment. Imagine a Marianne Williamson administration with current Senate, House, Supreme Court, judiciary, and permanent government. What do you do to make a difference? Knowing how to impose your will on the system is almost more important than the lofty goals themselves. I'd love to see Marianne Williamson solutions like RFK Jr's response to taking on the NIH/Big Pharma complex: odysee.com/@BeardTube/RFK-Jr…
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“In FY 2023, the Department of Defense (DOD) had $1.99 Trillion distributed among its 6 sub-components.” usaspending.gov/agency/depar…

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