akuma587 said:
Duh, questioning anything the military does, including wasting your money, is unpatriotic. Compared to many other sectors of the economy, the dollar per job created ratio is simply pathetic for the majority of military investment. You want to talk about pork barrel, look no further.
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Wait... since when?
Outside of Iraq and Afganistan military spending is one of the better investments out there due to the jobs and techinological advances it creates.
Actual operational budgets being countered towards overall military expendetures is disiengeious since you need such things to keep the military active and it's simply something that's done by people with an agenda.
Vs research and weapons production which create a lot of jobs and... wheter we like it or not are valuable exports even after they've used up their usefulness to us.
I mean one might as well bring up WW2 as an economic indicator if someoen wanted to argue the other way with an agenda.
It was a lot of what got us out of WW2. FDR failing to get unemployment out of the mid 25% before that.
