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[Unfortunately there is always the unseen factor in this MIC spending ratio. What they show us on the books is probably only 1/3rd of the true total they are spending on the MIC. There is more being handed out under the table than we know about. An analogy would be the face value of a $20 gold piece. By face value a gold piece should only cost you $20. But in the real world it costs 2K.]

How is the possibility of inflation different for every category of non-defense spending? How is this unique for defense spending?

10 posted on 03/20/2022 12:40:41 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)

Black budgets... There are things being funded for military purposes that even the Pentagon doesn’t know about.

11 posted on 03/20/2022 5:58:58 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)