Brandon
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a fan of lighting money on fire, especially when it's taxpayer money.
And we're running a deficit every year and we're already at 40 trillion.
We're just at 35 trillion.
Yeah.
I'm with you, and I'm totally open to that.
For a long time, I was with the mindset of like, you know what, fine, we spend as much as the remaining 10 mil, we spend as much as the next 10 militaries combined in the world.
Okay, fine.
We're the most safe country in the world.
Fine, sure.
We get taxed a lot to pay for that.
Fine, okay.
But when you tell me that we're running out of military equipment to go against a country that's much smaller than us, we better have every single measure that we need in any possible situation.
We don't have that.
So how is that possible for the last 20 years we've been spending at that rate and we don't have everything we need?
But if they do it right.
It's like they don't have an ownership mentality.
They have like a pillaging mentality.
You know, if everybody had a collective ownership mentality of America, then they wouldn't pillage the country.
Yeah, so, I mean, isn't it amazing that the government spent $200 billion on EV initiatives and they didn't think to beef up the amount of energy that the country produces?
But, I mean, that's a typical thing.