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that's not wrong but for the sake of argument perhaps its better to look at the DoD budget through the political lens ... its a corrupt jobs program in which t
by jakelarkin 8y ago
that's not wrong but for the sake of argument perhaps its better to look at the DoD budget through the political lens ... its a corrupt jobs program in which the government funnels money to a broad swath of American states and counties, mostly via defense contractors.
Yes its incredible dumb and inefficient but many millions of people earn their livelihood, healthcare and pensions by building useless bombs, so its hard (politically) to say we'll take that away to shore-up Social Security or whatever.
- noobermin 8y agoInstead you let a benefit the entire population depends on to keep the jobs of a fraction of the population. How is that a rational choice?
- fjsolwmv 8y agoIf the military industry became unemployed, social security would get a lot more expensive.
- Apocryphon 8y agoIf only it's politically feasible to slowly redirect their activities to peacetime activities, like reassign a lot of that personnel to the Army Corps of Engineers, and have them fix America's crumbling infrastructure.
- megaman22 8y agoIt does seem a little insane that we don't adopt the part of the Roman professional military system that was arguably one of the most effective.
- lamarpye 8y agoIt would be an interesting experiment to see what would happen if the cut the US military budget dramatically. I am of the opinion that it would decrease the world stability and millions of people would die. But YMMV.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoWhen did it become our job to police the world? Especially when it creates blowback (e.g., UBL). You might be right. But the USA's DoD budget is more than the NEXT 10 countries COMBINED. So we're VERY afraid? And we're alone with that having that fear? Maybe we find what we're looking for?