[Zhang Fei]

[When candidate Donald Trump stressed in his major foreign policy speech of 2016 that American “resources are totally over extended”]

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On government-mandated civilian projects, not military spending. 90% of federal and local spending (a combined ~35% of annual domestic national economic output aka GDP) is on police, fire departments, social welfare, regulatory, pork barrel spending and so on. About 10% (3.5% of GDP) is spent on defense. To hear Ron Paul talk about it, you’d think defense came to 50% of what the national produced nationally and was climbing. The reality is that when Eisenhower spoke about the military industrial complex, defense spending was 10% of GDP.
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/total_spending_chart
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/defense_spending

If we really want to cut government spending, the first thing we could do is decertify government employee unions, and sharply curtail civil service featherbedding. It would also help to eliminate affirmative action in government hiring, so that fewer, more competent workers can do the work that was previously done/undone by more numerous incompetents of favored skin colors and ethnicities. That will happen, of course, when pigs fly.

[Ozguy1945]

Zhang Fei we should also consider what is happening in the name of gender at the expense of mums who just want to be mums: https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2018/08/31/gender-and-society-calling-out-hysteria/