...spending trillions on defense each year?
Oh it's because they are hypocritical scumbags.
Republicans
singlehandedly added bailout insurance for the banks to the latest spending bill. They have always supported policies that socialize the cost/risk of business. Try asking a Republican about the subsidy and bailout system that has been in place since Reagan, and you will get a blank stare. [Republicans have never understood the Lobbying Industrial Complex, and the degree to which our wealthiest corporations own government. They've been told that government persecutes business. ******* morons! They don't understand that our politicians work for the corporate wealth that funds their elections.] Try asking a Republican about how lobbying works, and the number of subsidies that are handed out to big business - and you will get a blank stare. Big Government has always propped up and supported the largest profit makers. Why do you think the largest pharmaceutical and oil companies pour trillions of dollars into getting Republicans elected?
Republican politicians have always supported corporate welfare at the level of policy - but you never hear about this on FOX News, which takes advantage of morons who don't have the time, intelligence or patience to study actually policy. This is why most Republican voters have no idea that their party put a provision in the latest spending bill to put the taxpayers on the hook for the mistakes of the large banks.
How is it possible that Republicans don't know that their leadership gave the banks bailout insurance? You'd think they'd question their information sources, but they never do.
Do you know how much our country has been damaged because Republicans have no idea what their party is actually doing . . . ?