Originally posted by: charrison
Originally posted by: wQuay
Why is the US military budget like 350 billion dollars ?
Nothing is more fun than spending someone else's money.
But at least the defense budget is unquestionably constitutional spending.
Exactly the constitution is pretty clear and nowhere does it make mention of federal subsidies to farmers or to pay for your retirement or even your health care in the future.
the 336 billion in discretionary spending for defence pails in comparision to the 456 billion in Social Security and add that to the 364 billion for Medicare and medicaid. and there is also a 386 discretionary NON-MIlitary line. The federal governement's job is to protect us from forien enemies and very little else and yet out of a outlay of OVER 2 Trillion we are spending ONLY 336 billion on Defence.
Yes the military does have some waste buit the majority is due to the laws that force the military to buy from certain "groups" for products. IE if it is a veteran owned company they can get the supply contract even if their price is MUCH HIGHER:Q Minorities also get a benifit and do not face the same type of compition they would in the private sector. Those 500 dollar toliet seats are rare un today;s military and the higher costs for supplies are atributed to the guidline from whom we can purchase from and the requirements that are put on the vendors when they supply the government.
While you may be appaulled at the amout that is spent think about this.
COuld you get in your car and feel generally confidant that you could drive say 200 miles without the threat of bandits raiding you and taking your car and killing you? Before 9/11 did you worry about an attack on your home town? When entering a pizza hut is the threat of that building blowing up while you await your meat lovers supreme a REAL THREAT and something that goes into your cusiune choice for the evening? MOre that likely not. Yet in many parts of the world these are just some of the small problems that people deal with day in and day out. You enjoy the security that the military provides and then want to haggle on the price?
The truely poor in this world would sell their first born to have the luxury that our poorest citizens enjoy. ANd many risk there lives for an opportunity to live illegally here. Social programs don't work for the most part and are a drain on our socity while the military provides a real value in allowing you sleep with out the fear of a plane dropping a bomb on your suburban home with it's white picket fence while you are sleeping.
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