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Originally Posted by Eric5273
If the goal was simply to provide security, they could do that for 10% of what they spend.
If the goal was simply to provide security, and in addition also protect all American business interests around the world, they could probably do that for 50% of what they spend.
But the goal has become simply to spend money for the sake of spending, so that these huge military contractors can earn record profits and their CEO's and top executives can make hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
I'm sick of it, and I wonder at what point everyone else will become sick of it. How high does the military budget have to go before people have had enough? What if they spent a trillion? or 1.5 trillion? 10 years ago the number 600 billion would have been thought impossible. And now here we are. The current budget now provides for more military spending than the rest of the countries in the world put together. And yet we are less than 5% of the world's population.
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Nah, you want overwhelming power so that you can never be directly challenged. And the US has never been directly challenged since Japan tried, and we all know how that turned out. And that for the sake of spending line, you obviously have no idea how advanced US weaponry really is. That crap the media shows or that you see on the Discovery channel is just the tip of the iceberg. Not to mention the sheer numbers of people and buildings the DoD runs/employees. It isn't all spent on beloved Halliburton...trust me. Take a look at one DoD electric bill for the year.....
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Last edited by Wagner; 02-05-2007 at 10:22 PM.
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