re: 15 basic common sense questions that liberals have no answers for

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Common defense.



Pretty much

However military spending needs to be cut drastically.

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More than just military spending!

This is a common knee-jerk, "dittohead" reply to the question of government taxes and, therefore, expenditures: "defense only".

Without understanding that, without the federal government, there would be:

- no personal computers (government funded the original computers, plus all the following developments INCLUDING those necessary for the Space Race, including the transistor);
- no internet (ARPAnet);
- no first-world economy (depending upon transportation infrastructure: no Eisenhower Interstate Highway System for goods transport, arguably no First Transcontinental Railroad which was built upon government-subsidized lands);

It is always ironic - no, almost comical - how people who rail against progressivism do so on the INTERNET, which wouldn't even exist without progressive thought. If these people are so conservative, and against progressivism, why aren't they going home to their candlelit log homes, from their candlelit church vigils, to meet their arranged-marriage wives who sleep in another room? Why aren't they Mennonites if they hate progressivism so much??

Oh, wait, that's right: they LIKE progressive things like electricity, cell phones, television, computers and the internet - they just want to tell people what to do in regards to everything else.

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A quick Google search indicates that a lot of those were posted on reddit and Twitter throughout the year. So maybe the OP was just collecting then until he got to 15.

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It doesn't matter, truth is truth.