The artificial primacy of defense among our national priori… - Rachel Maddow

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The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine — guns get a pass.

Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.

Rachel Maddow

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Rachel Anne Maddow (born April 1, 1973) s an American television news program host and liberal political commentator.

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