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That's way off. The US spends 12% on the military.[0] [0] https://www.thebalancemoney.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305789#toc-spending https://www.thebal
by wrycoder 4y ago
That's way off. The US spends 12% on the military.[0]
[0] https://www.thebalancemoney.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305789#toc-spending https://www.thebalancemoney.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown...
- sodkmfkwegw 4y agoSorry about that, I meant to write "discretionary" in there. Regardless, the point of spending less on the military still stands. We can't change mandatory spending or we have millions of elderly people dying because social security vanishes into thin air.
- wrycoder 4y agoWell, I paid into SS and Medicare for fifty years, and I’m getting less out than I put in. But, still glad to have them. Some people call it a Ponzi scheme, but it’s a pool, as designed. The military is a big jobs program and all the industrial support generates a lot of economic activity. Better if they just dropped it in the ocean, though. Too much temptation to test it.
- sodkmfkwegw 4y agoSounds like you know the difference between the two programs then.