$2,000,000,000,000 defense budget?????

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Look at the % of GDP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_expenditures

Folks say we (the US) are empirical, or arrogant, and spend too much on our military. However the world doesn't run itself, so in order for us to pull back we'd need help.

That's why I say, 'they' need to put their money where their mouth is. It's the only solution that we'd all want. See?

Pete

Somehow, you seem to think there's a magic number of money that needs to be spent for the military across the world. I would offer that a significant portion of US military expenditures are against threats that no longer even exist. We still spend untold billions on weapons systems designed for an all-out multi-front war against the Soviets on land, on the seas, in the air and in space.

[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Look at the % of GDP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_expenditures

Folks say we (the US) are empirical, or arrogant, and spend too much on our military. However the world doesn't run itself, so in order for us to pull back we'd need help.

That's why I say, 'they' need to put their money where their mouth is. It's the only solution that we'd all want. See?

Pete

How did the world run itself before the US existed?

Who does the US plan to use the 5000+ nuclear warheads currently in th inventory against?

[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Somehow, you seem to think there's a magic number of money that needs to be spent for the military across the world. I would offer that a significant portion of US military expenditures are against threats that no longer even exist. We still spend untold billions on weapons systems designed for an all-out multi-front war against the Soviets on land, on the seas, in the air and in space.

I think the world would be a safer place if the US spent more money on keeping itself on the forefront of science and technology, rather than pissing it away on military adventures. I'd like to see a good, strong US of A innovating and looking after its own people.

The US didn't rise to its position as the preeminent world power because of military might. It happened because of industrial might. That is now being pissed away to China.

[piece-itpete]

Before our Gladstone-y-ish economic empirical system? Big knockdown dragout wars reliably often.

Really we keep coming back to a complete top to bottom review.

Pete

[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Before our Gladstone-y-ish economic empirical system? Big knockdown dragout wars reliably often.

Really we keep coming back to a complete top to bottom review.

Pete

But the last one bankrupted the European states that caused most of those wars, and deprived thm of their will to fight, while US aid created a super power out of one.