It is not widely known, but we are spending now what is about a trillion dollars a year on defense. A trillion dollars a year. And by the way, There are some geniuses now want to increase [the defense budget] by 50%. Right. Okay. Another 500 billion. Okay. While 800,000 people sleep out on the street and close to 100 million people have no health care. (1:07:21–1:07:25)
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Asserts that there are proposals to increase the U.S. defense budget by 50%.
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