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Why is defense sacrosanct in your view and healthcare not?
If you permit, may use a metaphor, and I will, and I shall:
It's like you are a parent and you spend all your money buying a home in a safe area, and on the latest security gear, an alarm company subscription, stockpile some guns, have a hurrican shelter and a "safe room installed, etc. Spare no expense to keep your family safe, by god.
And then you feed your kids twinkies all the time, and exhibit no personal emotional control over your parenting, maybe smack 'em around a bit when they talk back.
So to society you're a concerned parent spending everything on safety (and you probably have a bumper sticker on the pickup telling everyone you're a proud gun owner or something) - but behind closed doors you're ids are damaged little fucks who will probably shoot you with one of the guns you've stockpiled.
I don't understand why Conservatives don't see healthcare, environment et al as security issues, because it is. I mean, the best healthcare system in the US can be found in the military. No expense is spared to keep the soldiers in tip top shape - and it's costs beat the private market, yet no expense is spared. Go figure that. The military considers a healthy population a key to it's success, yet as for the rest of society in the GOP's eyes- well, let the poor fuckers die - physical health has nothing whatsoever to do with a functional economy. I don't get it - especially because preventative healthcare is fucking dirt cheap at scale as opposed to letting the shit fall apart and having to deal with terrible chronic problems.
Of course, then, if you a vulture capitalist, it's very easy to extract money/rent from people with any shred of hope to save their miserable lives or keep them on the edge of shit like diabeties, obesity, etc..
So it really is a system maximizing the system for wealth extraction and nothing to do with health. If conservatives were really concerned with national security they'd be interested in a healthy and fit population. But they're not, and they're not. It's protecting revenue streams.