I remember seeing some sort of "budget balancing calculator" linked to by a Financial Times article where you could try out your own ideas about how to reduce the deficit. I remember a number of the comments saying "I put defence to zero....but...".
So it's obvious to me that some portion of people don't understand what they're getting from defence. I would guess that everyone sees their own point of view very clearly and not others. So it's at least possible that some of us don't see what we get from spending money on aid because we don't know anything about it.
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