As we all know, throwing money at a problem solves it completely. Remember how Live Aid saved Ethiopia from starvation and it never had any problems again?

I'd rather live in a universe where that money is taken out of the military budget.

you'll never win that argument, but I absolutely agree.

people have no idea about how big the military and defense budgets worldwide are next to any other example of a public budget.

throw as many pie charts out as you want; people just can't see the astronomical difference in budgets.

I think it's based on how the thing works; a good defense works until it doesn't -- the other systems/budgets in place have a bit more of a graceful failure. This concept produces an irrationality in people that produces windfalls of cash availability.

Without capital invested in the past we wouldn’t have almost anything of modern technology. That has done a lot more for everyone, including food affordability, than actually simply buying food for people to eat once.