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Military spending isn’t like buying groceries. The US Military is a jobs program. Even a failed program fulfills this purpose. No amount of spending is “wast
by mulmen 5y ago
Military spending isn’t like buying groceries. The US Military is a jobs program. Even a failed program fulfills this purpose. No amount of spending is “wasted”.
- vgel 5y agoThis is the Broken Window Fallacy (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window) -- without the military spending, those same jobs could have been created by the government to do something useful, like fixing our crumbling infrastructure.
- astrange 5y agoThe studies giving our infrastructure bad grades are mostly coming from the contractors we'd be hiring to fix them.
- willis936 5y agoI drive on our roads. I drink our water. As anyone who does these things can tell you: our infrastructure is a god damn trainwreck.
- Schiendelman 5y agoA bridge just collapsed in Pennsylvania. In Seattle we have a major chunk of the city cut off because a bridge cracked. Every city’s transit system is aging or needs expansion badly.
- astrange 5y agoWasn’t the bridge undermined by a gas leak? Not much you can do about that unless you want a spare bridge somewhere else.
- quantified 5y agoWar is unfortunately real, if you read the papers. Our spending on stuff that isn’t people is massively kickbacks and back-scratching. Look at wasted energy inputs and unrecyclable materials as the true wastes, and the offshored/oligarch-concentrated money as a time bomb for when it gets actually deployed from its base in Virgin Islands.