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It happens when the wealthiest country in the world spends more money on war fighting than the other top 10 military spenders in the world - instead of investin
by fit2rule 7y ago
It happens when the wealthiest country in the world spends more money on war fighting than the other top 10 military spenders in the world - instead of investing in its own infrastructure and social services, it is spending it on demolishing - and then reconstructing - the infrastructure of sovereign states its politically-powerful religious class have deemed enemies of their ideology.
It happens, because America has not been about the American people for decades. America is mostly focused on the destruction of sovereign states it finds guilty of being un-American in style.
Did everyone just suddenly forget that this is the country that has spent more on destroying sovereign states around the world, in the last 50 years, than any other country in the history of the world?
- akvadrako 7y agoUSA spends 3.1% of GDP on military - which is close to the 2% mandated by NATO. That isn't the reason people can't get food.
- fit2rule 7y agoGDP: Irrelevant, if you are digging your beloved out from the rubble. Good luck with that.
- voisin 7y agoWouldn’t the more appropriate metric be military spending as a percentage of government expenditures? The point being made above is that other governments spend on things useful to the populace and not war. I think by pointing at % of GDP another key point is lost: lower taxes than other countries. The US gov’t takes in less as a % if GDP and what it does take in it disproportionately spends on things that do not benefit the average Joe.
- akvadrako 7y agoWell no, gov spending is not more appropriate than gdp for exactly the reason you mention. If taxes are lower and hence less money is spent on social support, that has nothing to do with the military. Still I don’t think that applies much to the USA - I think the total tax burden is comparable in many states. Medica* and SS are also huge parts of the budget.