Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

From the book's preview (page 23 or so) : "We were a country that could afford to be generous to our returning veterans, and more than sixty years later we're still reaping the benefits of that generosity". RM then goes on to extol the virtues of all the governmental handouts (college, home loans etc) to people/vets after WWII (GI Bill stuff). Of course she thinks it's OK to spend other people's money (OPM) on the vets (it's akin to kissing babies) but there were a lot of downsides to this spending. Once the gov't got involved in subsidizing housing and college tuitions, the costs couldn't help but rise. We are still paying for this today. But RM thinks we got nothing but "benefits" from it.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency. GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Alexander Hamilton, May 2, 1783

This woman's ideologically driven ranting only serves to cement her image as an intolerant, self-promoting loudmouth. Try research some real American history. Not the propaganda you had sledgehammered into your tiny brain in school.