CATO Institute: Ben Friedman- 'Discusses Non-Interventionism in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Common Sense Society'

Source:CATO Institute- research fellow Ben Friedman.

"Ben Friedman discusses non-interventionism in U.S. foreign policy at the Common Sense Society" 

From the CATO Institute

One of the reasons why the United Kingdom and European Union as well as the Imperial Republic of Japan have such large welfare states (too put it simply) because they can afford to. But the better question is why do they have such large welfare states (compared with the United States) is because their defense budgets, are about 1/5 of ours as part of their GDPs. 

And a good question would be why is that, because not only are we responsible for the national defense of America, but I would argue North America as a whole, as well as Britain, Scandinavia, Europe, Saudi Arabia, Korea, and Japan. All developed nations that have the resources to defend themselves, but American taxpayers spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year to defend them.