This global war on terror keeping the United States on a global war footing has

corroded our own democracy

It has led to a politics of even more intense bigotry and it has produced what we see in our streets it produced Donald Trump

Welcome to deconstruct it. I'm Maddie Hussain last week. We talked to defunding the police this week

Is it time to defund the military and we keep our people safe with less than we are spending now?

Absolutely weekend. That's my guest today Matt Duss senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders

But is cutting America's bloated war budget is taking on the all-powerful pentagon a progressive pipe dream or an idea whose time has finally come

Let's do a quick quiz question one. What is the biggest office building in the world?

Answer the pentagon six and a half million square feet of total floor space three times the size of the floor space of the Empire State Building

It's big question two who or what is the biggest employer in the world answer yet again

The pentagon with nearly three million employees the Chinese military comes in at second place with just over two million employees and

Walmart is in third place

Question number three which defense department has the biggest military budget in the world answer

You guessed it the US defense department the pentagon yes, it's massive in almost every way you can think about it

Beyond huge the US military budget now stands at $736 billion

Which means the pentagon spends as much money on defense as the next 10 countries in the world combined

Combined in fact almost four out of every $10 spent on the military globally every year is spent on the US military

Defund the police has gone from a protest chant to a serious topic of policy discussions

We talk a lot these days about defunding the police and rightly so

So isn't it time we also talked about defunding the pentagon defunding the military

As with police spending the US is in a military spending league of its own

And as with police spending military spending deprives americans of money that could be much better spent elsewhere

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