| That Guy said: Akuma is right about you guys.
I mean seriously, the military spending pie chart looks a LOT like nintendo's marketshare in the videogame market (and Europe looks like PS3, lol); but I digress.
The united states almost spends more than everyone else in the world COMBINED. They spend 6 times more than the 2nd highest military, China. I'm not saying do anything drastic here, but I think the nation will survive if they only outspent their next highest superpower only by a factor of 4 or 5 instead of 6. Why do we justify these HUGE defense budgets while at the same time domestic stuff like intrastructure (i.e. the Bridge in Minnesota, or the Levies in New Orleans) or Healthcare constantly get ignored until a disaster happens? |
We didn't spend 5 trillion on stealth technology. Your being ridiculious.
Nor are we 5 generations ahead of everyody in weapons technology. Great Britian for example is very close... and staying way ahead of your enemy in technology is a good things. It means you hardly lose any solders in war.
I mean think of iraq where like... under 5,000 deaths is seen as huge losses.
Not to mention the many other benefits it creates. For example Silicoln valley and the results it created was GREATLY helped by military spending.
Lots of technology out there only the military can buy... and if that technology can be used to kill enemy troops or save their own. You can bet the government is going to buy it... and in good numbers.
Unlike virtually any other kind of technology.
It's a lot like the space program. If you look at it as billions to get to the moon. Yeah sure not impressive. But when you count all the other stuff...
Clinton saw this. This is one of the reasons why he was the one who started to give the Military consistant drastic icnreases to non operational spending under his presidency.
