Programs will write programs.

Again, if your concern was genuine about both social programs for people as well as corporate welfare and jingoism, you would be equally ranting against both. But you seem fixated on people's ability to get food or cancer treatment first. Why would that be the priority and not first going after the richest people in the country who aren't in a life or death situation? Alos, we have drawn a line, clearly, we cover less of peoples healthcare than any modern developed nation. The biggest issue we have is not how many people or how much we are covering people. You can easily drop the percentage of our budget that health services take up if we fight to reduce the actual health services and products costs like Canada does.

That you can access a computer at any library is somehow relevant once again highlights that you just don't have the life experience. Either you are very old or very young. There are few modern jobs that don't require you to bring your own laptop. Most of the jobs you seem to support in the STEM majors require a high-end setup as well btw. You can't tell your boss hey I'm actually not coming into the office because I'm working out of my local library...

Skilled trades are not the economy... plumbers, electricians, carpenters, mechanics, millwrights, machinists, etc. need to work for people, and those people have highly specialized jobs because of the advanced economy we live in, which requires an education. Btw those job growth projections from the US Bureau of Labor say those are just amongst jobs that will grow. It isn't to the exclusion of other jobs. The overwhelming number of the jobs are actually in positions that require an education.

Education makes poets and artists better. And yes many of the singers, actresses, and artists you have heard of went to art schools. Even 2Pac went to an art school.

In regards to people's issue of gratification. First off you act like those impulses aren't created, encouraged, and coerced by the same companies selling them stuff. They have been advertising and brainwashing people into a lack of impulse control their whole lives. And second off the impulse control is a very minimal aspect of the issue. You're taking a super narrow issue that doesn't even affect everyone and choosing to blame that for much more obvious issues.
Like the complete stall in income growth as the cost of everything else has gone up. What is my generation supposed to do? Our disposable income is being strangled but if we don't spend the economy stalls.

China is overtaking us because of massive public spending and government using the state to drive the economy or shore up economic crises in the country. You're using them as an example of what is overtaking us as well as saying that is what not to do. The world's highest entitlements spenders happen to also be the richest and most successful states...

It is almost like public spending drives the economy.

And once again, these other states welfare systems are less problematic because they have national negotiations on pharmaceuticals as well as medical products being imported. It's not complicated how we can fix this, we don't need to let people starve suffer or die. Bernie Sanders tried to fix the pharmaceutical issue but he was betrayed by Cory Booker who tanked the bill being passed even though Sanders had gotten the Republican voted to pass it. Yet another reason Centrists are trash.