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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by spending hundreds of billions of

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dollars it's that thing we decided to never be able

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to do the second we utter the words A career

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in education might be nice lincoln And check out the

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graph right there Spend hundreds of billions and here's our

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question Which of the following was developed by policymakers to

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help facilitate the goals behind the two thousand three influx

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in military spending And here a potential answers influx in

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military school in the grammar Get up All right Well

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you know that guy in school who everybody's afraid of

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he's got some boundary issues and muscle mass that defies

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the laws of puberty You ever wonder how he got

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that way Usually it's Some combination of genetics hard work

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and the ability to chug large quantities of raw eggs

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and maybe steroids Yeah That's How he got his guns

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Well if the world were a high school the american

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military would be this guy The thing is that real

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guns cost money And no other country in the world

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spends nearly as much on their military as the united

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States anyhoo today's question utilizes a graph before we come

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to any conclusions we need to figure out why the

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american military got so pumped up in two thousand three

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Well the terrorist attacks of two thousand one lead to

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american military intervention in iraq and afghanistan with two new

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wars and the threat of terrorism on the way mama

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military needed two things a good night's rest and a

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steady paycheck so we need to decide which of the

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four policies share the same goals Is the war on

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terror no first let's take a look att tthe e

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se a kid is referring to the policy called don't

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ask don't tell which prevented gay and lesbian americans from

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serving openly gaily in the military It basically invited gay

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americans teo be all you can be just a not

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who you are President obama repealed it in two thousand

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eleven sending a message that who you love doesn't affect

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your ability Teo shoot a gun allowing soldiers to be

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both out and proud americans and you guessed it just

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had nothing to do with the two thousand three increase

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in milk very spending How about the not quite our

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second option refers to the stagnation in middle class wages

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Well this is a fancy way of saying the american

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middle class was stuck in a rut It happens in

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a shifting economy from time to time but this cause

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had no effect on military spending Next up for examination

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D policy d is talking about his nafta or if

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we want to use its full names to the north

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american free trade agreement If you refer to your text

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books you'll see that nafta was drawn up in nineteen

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ninety for nearly a decade before the pattern in the

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question so let's a defer to the next choice After

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the terrorist attacks of september eleventh americans were on high

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alert President bush and other leaders were determined to not

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only never forget but also to never let another attack

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happen again One of the most controversial actions taken was

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the introduction of the patriot act a piece of legislation

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granting the federal government the power to monitor your phone

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records and internet messages Well some thought that it was

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a necessary safeguard Others thought the government was becoming you

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know a big old snoop dog Was this in response

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To the war on terror Well let's just say if

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it wasn't then dick cheney was an expert marksman It

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wasn't he he actually shot a friend in the face

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All right go ahead and circle ceased And remember kids

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always try to be a better friend and dick cheney

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sorry way like you just don't think you're a very 00:03:19.85 --> [endTime] good shot

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