Student loans debate - fair game for students?

[numberwang]

Rab said:

The US obsession with enemies reflected in it defense spending has a huge cost on the rest of it's essential spending  

 

Context: military spending as a proportion of GDP went down dramatically over the last decades, while social spending rose and is now 5x higher than military. 

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/04/what-does-the-federal-government-spend-your-tax-dollars-on-social-insurance-programs-mostly/