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National defense also happens to be the most lucrative. No one has ever lost an election by demanding that we throw more money to defense contractors.
by drivingmenuts 11y ago
National defense also happens to be the most lucrative. No one has ever lost an election by demanding that we throw more money to defense contractors.
- at-fates-hands 11y agoNo politician will ever come out and say they want to double or triple the defense budget, they usually do it after they get in office. What usually happens is the candidate talks about reducing the military budget, only to increase it once in office. Obama would be a great example. He was opposed to the multiple wars the US was fighting, then once he got into office, he increased spending on various defense projects: In Obama’s first year as president, his defense secretary, Robert Gates, ratcheted up spending on the F-35 as a compromise for halting production on the F-22, a larger, more expensive stealth aircraft. But the F-35 has turned out to be nearly as costly and considerably more troubled. His budget for 2016 looks to increase the military budget: Intriguingly, while the Pentagon’s “overview” briefing notes that it’s requesting a 4 percent increase in the total defense budget and a 21 percent reduction in the OCO accounts, it doesn’t express the base-budget increase in percentage terms, so let me do the math for you: It translates to an increase of 7.7 percent. This is enormous. source: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2015/02/president_obama_s_enormous_defense_budget_it_favors_big_weapons_systems.single.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...