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Originally Posted by GrantMercury
Yup. It's one way they steal from us. We all put hard-earned coins into the kitty - and the huge defense corporations scoop it up. It's the perfect way to fleece America, because we're all so goddamned afraid of everything (reinforced by the corporate media), that the last thing we'd want to cut would be "defense."
Just look at the wailing and gnashing of teeth when anyone suggests doing so.
We're idiots.
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Great, fine, let's stop all military spending. We can argue that the US military helped to move technology forward during the cold way - in huge ways - but honestly, we don't need this now. US industry - as well as other countries - can easily take over this role if they haven't already.
But then... All that money we spend on the military, it's dependents, the tens of millions of civilian contractors.... All of them would be unemployed. We'll save billions, hundreds of billions, but then we'll have tens of millions unemployed.
I'm cool with this really. Let's get rid of the Air Force, the Amry, and the Navy. Let's close nearly all of our bases across the world. The US Marines can handle the rest.