jv103 said:
Kasz216 said:
The problem is you are still balooning operation costs into other costs. That's where most of the 5 Trillion is going. That and bribes to other countries
The descruction and rebuilding of two countries.
Military research is still huge and very important when it comes to job maintaining and job growth... of course you can argue that we produce a lot of weapons we don't need. Though these mostly replace out of date weapons we have. Which is a good thing as it just saves lives.
I mean with an impending peak oil situation and resources generally getting worse I would want it's probably best to have as modern an army as possible as we may yet see again a day where near equals meet on combat over resources.
I mean that's like saying... I haven't had a fire in my house for over 20 years. So i'm going to stop buying fire extinguishers. All forms of military attack should be protected against. Having as well rounded a military as possible is a good thing. The only real arguement is if we're doing enough to handle anti-guerrilla tactics. Which the answer is i'd think... "Probably no, but anti-guerrilla weapons are messy anway."
When troops go active it costs much much more to maintain them then it does when they are just sitting at a base somewhere. Hence why the numbers are deceptive. If you look closeley at all thoes reports decrying military as not making jobs you'll notice they have two main data gathering points.
When spending increased during the Vietnam and Iraqi wars. Wars against far inferior forces.
Really when it comes to the deployment of troops. The economy only improves when it is vs a nearly equal foe as the buisnesses need more weapons. Rather then it just being the ones that are sitting around are being used. In fact such wars can slow down the replacement of weapons.
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Not if you have 1,000, like the F/A/ 18 that can still fight fires perfectly. Isn't military spending as an economic boosters considered 'broken window theory'.
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I don't know what you mean by that.
I know what broken window theory is. But I don't see the comparison.
One coud argue that by stopping the upgrading of our arsenal we encourage action against us i suppose. Just how stopping to fix broken windows will lead to further vandalism.
I don't see what that would have to do with economic boosters however.
