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Originally Posted by Guest
The concept on it's own is absurd. Military spending creates jobs.
World War II is what got us out of the depression. When weapons, parts, uniforms, food and equipment were needed millions of workers were suddenly employed to manufacture them. Civilian support employees were needed in communications and several other areas.
I'm not saying that war is a good thing, but it does have a positive effect on an economy.
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Carl Marks in an essay said that a capitalistic economy needs a war every 20 years to keep the economy going.
The US currently spends more on our military then the entire rest of the world does.
Our own separation from England in the American Revolution can be viewed as a revolt against taxation.
That taxation was caused by the tremendous military expense of the English
Our military spending is MOSTLY domestic. I seem to recall reading the canon on our Abrams tank is made in germany.
We just sold a few billion to Saudi Arabia.
It is interesting that most every state in the union has military spending. That is not a coincidence. Any congress member voting against military spending is costing some potential voters.
It is not all waste as far as non-war use. The internet was originally for the military, gps was for the military, communication satellites are mostly paid for by the military,
digital photography was invented for the military.
Cyber attack scares us, or should scare us because we are vulnerable of a disabling of our entire military and economy by a cyber attack. An atomic bomb would disable all of our electronics. For back up, we have very little. We have paperless almost everything
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