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Or the government can pay people to build better infrastructure instead.

• activiation 3y ago
  War is better of course /s
• culi 3y ago
  Yes but you can never sell this to the right. You have to package it up into something like "fight the war" or "build a wall" (another useless project that's only meant as a job creation program to boost support in areas where the president needs it). Conservatives and liberals alike agree on job creation programs
  • einpoklum 3y ago
    > Yes but you can never sell this to the right. Just don't delude yourself that "the right" is the Republican parties. Both large political parties in the US are staunchly right-wing parties by most criteria. > Conservatives and liberals alike agree on job creation programs No, they do not. I mean, they agree on funding large corporations and the military as though that's a job creation program.
• lesuorac 3y ago
  A vote of Nay on the military budget is not directly a vote of Aye on infrastructure spending. Also jobs are not really transferable. So all the military people need to be less mad at you than the infrastructure people are now happy with you; otherwise you lose at re-election. Like you need to figure out what the transition is from using military as an employment welfare to construction as an employment welfare and why the US will stick to that transition at each phase. That's a lot of work; much easier as a politician to not rock that boat.