Squeezing Water Out of a Rock

I feel the hot air wafting across my face.  Washington Post (neutered) headline.  (How many employees did Bezos lay off?)  "Trump Aids have trouble figuring out how to spend 500 billion dollars on defense."  Evidently our President has no need to be fiscally responsible.  We are not at war, but the defense industry needs and wants a war.  What is the national debt?  If we are in debt  38 TRILLION dollars, then there is no 500 billion dollars.  When Donald Trump became President, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was active.  It is better known as the Iran Nuclear Deal.  This far reaching and in depth treaty limited Iran's enriched uranium in return for the lifting of financial sanctions.  In 2018 Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement leading to Iran exceeding the said limit on uranium enrichment.  Today's headlines in the Washington Post?  The President is considering a military attack on Iran.  They want a war, not peace.  The defense industry makes money from war, but they do not fight the wars.  Wars like Korea, Viet Nam, and the Persian Gulf are fought by our military.  The trade off of dead American soldiers for profit for the defense industry is evil.  The entire electrical grid could be rebuilt with 500 billion dollars.  There would be leftover changed.  In Fayettenam our Country Commissioners give away millions of dollars.  To be exact 30 million dollars for a cancelled performing arts center which now is a dirt mud hole.  A firehouse that sits uncompleted on Bragg Boulevard.  Another 15 million dollars down the drain, because they want to tear it down.  It will not cost 100 million dollars to renovate the Crown Theater and arena, but someone is going to get that money.  I predict it will be Walter Davis' architectural firm.  Those who hold elected positions get to choose where the money is spent.  Let's spend another 500 billion dollars on defense, when they have trouble picking up the trash at Fort Bragg.  I am paying $9.00 for 1.5 liters of California goat milk, because America's milk, beef, poultry, pork, and eggs are below quality standards.  Grocery and energy prices continue to rise, and average people cannot live without them.  Food and energy for heating and cooling, these things we cannot go without, and they know it.  Let's squeeze some spare changed out of rocks, and the rocks are us.  Immobile.  Under duress.  Lack of opportunity or financial advancement, but lets squeeze the people anyway.