trapdoor:

How about obeying the United States Constitution -- is our children's freedom worth doing that? There is no constitutional authority for a health care plan -- there certainly is one for military spending.

That "argument" makes absolutely no sense at all. Nobody here suggested that all defense spending be eliminated. The US currently spends more on its military than all other nations on the face of the planet combined. Is that somehow mandated by the US Constitution? Is that the honest price of freedom? I think you're being swindled.