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Originally Posted by Air&Road
Yeah, GREAT IDEA!  Just shut down the military altogether. There's no one in the world who wants to kill us. Just do away with that expense so that we can give more money to the people in this country who choose not to work and also have more money to give away in foreign aide.
YEAH! GREAT IDEA! What a GENIUS you are!!!! |
To be fair, I think you may be mis-characterizing my position a little bit. Just to be clear, I am not a proponent of any plan nor am I even aware of any plan to
"Just shut down the military altogether" and use the proceeds to
"give more money to the people in this country who choose not to work and also have more money to give away in foreign aide."
I do think our military is way too big, and has become a jobs program (busy work) via defense technology spending and also via the military itself. Did you ever think that the expense of the cold war arms race may be what brought down the USSR because their economy was inferior to ours and that they simply bankrupted themselves
first? And maybe since we continue to spend on the mil as before that we might bankrupt ourselves next? And that we risk letting the Chinese win the race to dominance without ever firing a bullet? And what about all the productivity lost by not investing that money in sci-tech research? Or just not spending it?