[quote=The Nexerus]
The difference being that while spending on the military sustains and advances it, spending on welfare adversely affects those who receive it, in the long run.
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War and Military are not the same thing. It is possible to spend money to sustain your military and have them survive without bloodshed every couple months. And I would suggest that spending this money on war also adversely effects those we engage with as well as us. The infrastructures we destroy, we also try to rebuild. We have to pay for that, and we also have to pay for every dollar that we send and seems to go elsewhere. It's no secret that corruption runs deep with everyone involved in our efforts to rebuild in Afghanistan and Iraq, and really, this shouldn't be a surprise. We helped to create the desperation leading to the corruption, not to mention much of it lies within our own ranks (ViceNews has some really great articles and videos on this). So, basically, I'd say that's pretty damn similar to welfare 

Just throwing this out there... wouldn't be it be better to increase funding to Community Colleges to help solve unemployment issues? Community Colleges are specifically designed to accept everyone they can within the community with as little restriction as possible. We create affordable programs that students can complete in as short a time as 6 months. We also have massive resources allocated to Professional Technical programs that are designed hand-in-hand with local businesses, so students are exposed to as much of what employers want as possible. At the institution I work for, tuition is also a third of what for-profit schools like Everest and Devry charge (yet these schools are sprouting up everywhere). Perhaps investing money to options like Community Colleges would be a good way to make Welfare less cyclical. Giving the painfully poor and unemployed easy and cheap access to an education that can get them a job may cost a little more, but it would probably solve the problems you see rather than just cutting everyone off and leaving them high-and-dry.