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1 posted on 07/07/2018 5:08:04 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK

Those numbers sure open your eyes

2 posted on 07/07/2018 5:28:41 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)

I worked with a couple of guys from Germany for a year back in the early nineties. When we got around to how the USSR collapsing would save NATO countries including the US a lot of money they disagreed. They said half of what ends up in the "Defense" spending category actually had nothing to do with defense and wouldn't go away even with the USSR gone because they were "pork" they couldn't get enough support to fund any way other than pilfering it out of the funds for the military.

I don't know if that's true, but looking at the way things are categorized for the charts I think I see a couple of loopholes you could drive truckloads of money through to fund all kinds of non-defense related goodies.

Thoughts? Anyone familiar with how well European countries segregate defense spending from other spending?

4 posted on 07/07/2018 5:54:32 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)

We’ve been much more interested in defending Europe than the Europeans are. Every military man and woman ought to be taken off that continent after these 73 years of babysitting.

5 posted on 07/07/2018 6:42:36 PM PDT by txrefugee

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