The justification for redistributing wealth all over the place in areas like education, healthcare, and other “entitlements” is that new money in the system will get people spending again.  Keynesian economists like Paul Krugman are fond of saying that this spending is “needed.”

If the simple injection of money into the system works, why is the military being left out?

While Obama’s 2010 budget calls for a government the size of $3.6 trillion, but military spending, of course, isn’t on the menu.  While the military spending is increasing by a small amount – about 2% – this is a tiny raise compared to recent years.  Health and Human Services, meanwhile, expands by 7.5% in this budget.

The Environmental Protection Agency?  34.6%.

If throwing money down the EPA low-flow toilet is stimulus, then why not “stimulate” the Department of Defense – the ones who actually build new things?  The U.S. military, lest we forget, has many domestic companies build them stuff.  Tanks, technology, even electric vehicles.  Chrysler, for example, would benefit from Military “stimulus.”

Spending on the U.S. military also has the added benefit of, you know, protecting liberty.

Obama also said in his address to Congress that he wants more people to graduate from the college.  Hey, doesn’t the army have a program like that?