You'd need to ask someone who thinks it's a good idea to keep a massive oversupply for the military. (Note that I'm not American, so I have no skin in that game

You'd need to ask someone who thinks it's a good idea to keep a massive oversupply for the military. (Note that I'm not American, so I have no skin in that game.) I don't, though, disagree with keeping a large stockpile of goods.* I just disagree with constantly kneejerk reassigning production to it. * I still don't know that it can work, but only because I think people too quickly forget that it's important. If people could be convinced otherwise in the long term, I think it's a great idea.