0:00.0	The Good evening. It's Thursday, July 6th. Welcome to a new episode of
0:18.6	System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday
0:21.8	at 7 PM Eastern exclusively here on
0:24.4	Rumbull the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight is there any connection
0:28.8	between the US posture of endless war on the one hand and the declining quality of life for Americans at home
0:35.2	on the other. Put another way, if the US government every year transfers hundreds of
0:39.9	billions of dollars to the arms industry, to the CIA and the Pentagon in order to
0:44.2	fuel and fight wars overseas as the US is now doing in Ukraine and has been doing
0:49.4	non-stop for the last 25 years will that have any negative effect on the ability and
0:55.5	willingness of the US government to provide more opportunities and better
0:59.0	living conditions for its own citizens.
1:02.7	Until recently, those questions need not even be asked.
1:05.4	Its truth was glaringly obvious that Americans
1:08.8	had to choose between guns and butter
1:11.6	became such conventional wisdom that its original authorship is not even
1:14.9	certain.
1:15.9	It's typically attributed to Secretary of State William Brian Jennings, who resigned as
1:19.6	Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State in 1915 in protest of Wilson's
1:24.1	obvious desire to involve the US in the European War that became known as
1:27.8	World War I and in particular in protest to the
1:31.1	exploding cost of military spending,
1:34.0	which he argued would destroy the American way of life at home.
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