COTW: The Profligacy of 'Merica

This chart shows the cumulative costs in billions by year of the wars in the Middle East.  'Merica could have spent some of this money to house all of its homeless or provide a social medicine system comparable to other western countries.  But no, because it is owned by plutocrates, it chooses to enrich  corporate warmongers and impoverish it's middle class.  Democracy? Not so much.