Market watch: Dow Jones drops approx. 300 points, 4% today. Drops below 7000 points.

[theRepublic]

Kasz216 said:

Bitmap Frogs said:
Military spending is a huge problem: these guys can wrap their blunders in tight layers of "national security secrecy" and red tape.

And if you attempt to cut there, the opposition will just use it as an electoral weapon. It's disgusting.

 

And technological advancements, job creation, exporting... as weapons are a fairly big US export... and the more advanced we get, the more we can sell off other weapons.

We've got something like dang near half of the arms market cornered... and this is despite the fact that we don't sell our newest stuff.

Also this is just the legal recorded numbers.

This is disgusting, in my opinion.  The US should not be in the business of exporting war machines.  We even claim to be trying to keep world peace.

If we didn't sell our weapons, we would slow the need for new and better weapons.