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Obama also made the deliberate choice to bow to Big Pharma and Big Insurance by killing single payer.
The military budget's interesting, though. We spend more and more every year, trillions, but if you look at the war budget as a percentage of our GDP, it's actually lower than it's been in the past.
(Which still pisses me off, but it's an interesting fact.)