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Do you think that these projects don't further the DoD's core objectives? The vast majority of such projects do contribute to the departments ability to wage war and build a competent force.

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Free school lunches in the US are a defense program. The draft in WWII was impeded by the fact that poor kids tended to be malnourished, and grew up to be physically unfit for military service.

Ironically the military now rejects so many potential recruits for obesity that it has become a national security threat.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/10/10/americas...

So Michelle Obama should have tried to position the push for improved nutrition in school lunches as a pro-military effort to get conservative support?

To get conservative support, Michelle should consider a push to support one income families where one family member can dedicate themselves to provide improved nutrition for their own children.

Conservatives believe that the State is not a proper substitute for mother + father family, but any measure strengthening the biological family is absolutely anathema in liberal circles. At some level your rhetorical question acknowledges this state of affairs.

The Democrat's Expanded Child Tax Credit is the single largest transfer of wealth to SAHMs in the history of the country.

I guess that would make any assistance by a state to its population a defense program, yes?

everything that goes well in the country contributes to the DoD ability to wage war

Maintaining wildlife is part of national defense too, I would argue.

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