Some recent conversations:

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Me: You realize you are giving up your standard of living so that we can bomb, rebuild and police the middle east, right?
Neocon (underemployed): I never thought of it like that.

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Me: If you had to choose between your social security check and our government policing the world and maintaining military bases in 130 countries which would you choose?
Neocon (retired): Uhh...

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Tie together things going to $#@! at home to us spending trillions in the middle east and maintaining bases in 130 countries and I have found that you get them thinking. Especially if you start the conversation with "we're broke" or "going bankrupt" which they always agree with and it gets them talking.

Anyways, just thought I'd share...