C’mon, more spending than next 5 powers combined.....not gonna shed tears over military spending. Same ratio of budget as it was at the height of Cold War. Only difference is that budget is now many times bigger.
Wasn’t this a major theme of Duncan Hunter’s campaign?
Duncan Hunter was right again PING
Bullet orders reveal much about the plans of a military.
Do we trust the Chinese with all this ``ìnside information.``
Another factor is that the defense contractors have populated their employees with people that have degrees from prestigious universities, that don’t believe in defense.
An appreciating dollar was very popular among the citizens but it destroyed our manufacturing base.
Now we have a cheap dollar, thank God, and we can begin to rebuild.
There will be many disruptions in the short term but it is neccesary to our survival.
Building military weapons in foreign countries is nothing more than outsourcing national security.
But this just cannot be. Milton Friedman said that the market is always right. We should always go to the cheapest source. It’s good for us. Protectionism is always bad. Even if there was no manufacturing base left in the United States, it would be good. (Sarcasm)
We could not fight a world war like we did in the 40’s. To many of our potential enemies are suppliers, and we don't have the industrial base to pick up the slack.
We are just waiting for our version of the Goths to come sack the Capital.