"you seem to be overly concerned with what you will need to pay."

The reason I am concerned with what it will cost is that when politicians make their pie in the sky promises about free or affordable stuff as Obama did most recently, these things turn out to be neither.

"i would happily redo the budget and slash the budget to halburton to make it happen without costing the taxpayer anything."

The American people fund everything the government spends money on, be it Halliburton or wars of aggression. Cutting one expenditure to fund the other is like robbing Peter of Sally’s stolen money to pay Paul, Sally being the American people. Given the choice, I think folks would much rather keep their hard earned money electing not to live from one paycheck to the next, this, as opposed to paying the government to engage in wasteful spending.

"I simply think the govts priorities are screwed up, and we as citizens are complicit in allowing it to be that way."

I agree that the Government’s priorities are all screwed up. I don’t know how complicit Sally is though, as she is regularly fleeced via threats and coercion. If Sally were autonomous, as opposed to living in a perpetual state of duress, I’m sure she’d rather have nothing to do with the government and this makes her not complicit.

A good analogy for this is the TV show called The Walking Dead. In this show, there is a character called Negan. Negan is a big bully he roams the countryside stealing from people and forcing them to work for him. His people are under duress and therefore ruled by the fear of what he’ll do to them if they don’t comply. He will present them with a false dilemma which provides them with an illusion of choice. So for an example, Negan might be like should I kill this guy or that guy and depending on how the people choose will dictate who he kills. Whether they choose who he should kill this thrust upon them the notion they are complicit when in reality they are suffering from fear and Stockholm syndrome too. Basically, Negan is government and if he gave “his people” a real choice as opposed to a false dilemma, they’d go their own way.

"Money isnt the problem. The way we spend it is."

If money isn’t the problem, then Negan should be able to find gainful employment that doesn’t involve pillage and plunder. I think you might not grasp what a pickle America has gotten itself into. The looming debt is impossible to pay off, and this forces our country to go to war, looting and plundering the wealth of sovereign nations States for one main purpose, and that’s so the United States can make payments on the interest which accrues on the national debt.

I think the idea of free and affordable things are great, but only if they are truly free and if I'm given a real choice as to whether or not I want to purchase it. Anything beyond that, specifically a mechanism which forces people to do this or that is not only manipulative but also criminal. If it's wrong for you to go on the street and force people at gunpoint to do business with you, then it's equally as wrong for the government to do the same.

I think you have good intentions, but as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If you want to do something for the good of someone else it's very important that-that someone else agrees to your plan. If they do not agree with your plan, then no matter how good the plan it is wrong if it violates that individual's liberty. Are you familiar with the philosophy of liberty?

P.S. Here's a brief history on socialism. Also, the reason it tends not to work is because the free market is a complex system that builds itself from the ground up. When you tinker with this complex system from the top down it muddles everything up. America is not a true example of a free market, it's already been messed with too much. This short, shows how complex a free market is for something as simple as the making of a pencil.