<table style="width: 90%;" border="0"><tr><td><strong>HappySqurriel said:</strong><br /><table style="width: 90%;" border="0"> <tbody><tr> <td><strong>numonex said:</strong> <p>The Defense Budget spending needs to be drastically reduced. Slash the Defense spending and bring the troops back. Trillions of tax payers money has been wasted on two wars in the Middle East. Pension funds have been raided to fund these Middle East wars. Still chasing ghosts in the desert for almost 10 years and will continue on forever.<br><br></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p><br>Not that I completely disagree, but the defence spending is far from the worst spending of the US government. A large portion of military spending goes towards research and development or products that are based on emerging technologies; and this moves these emerging technologies from being too expensive to be used for practical purposes into the range where they can be made into commercial products far faster than they would otherwise. Technologies like GPS are so common today that maintaining and improving the infrastructure is cost effective from a commercial standpoint, but without massive military based spending to develop the technology and build the infrastructure it would have never existed.</p> <p>Many (if not most) of the technologies that are at the core of new products and services today found their initial applications in the military; and if funding to this is cut I’m not certain whether the products of the future will develop in such a timely fashion.</p></td></tr></table><br /><br />
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
