> it's hard to shake the impression that the majority of our bloated military budget is a federal make-work jobs program The majority of it is precisely that.

> it's hard to shake the impression that the majority of our bloated military budget is a federal make-work jobs program The majority of it is precisely that. It's the only jobs & wealth redistribution program Republicans are willing to fund (though they never call it that). Pity it's so inefficient for that purpose.