re: #192 cliffster

I’ve always been one to eye-glaze-over when it comes to defense spending. Whatever they need, give them; we need a strong defense and most of the money is going to US folks. The numbers for the last 6 or so years are pretty staggering though. It does make we want to see, y’know a breakdown. Can we pretty please publish a spreadsheet that shows the line items on that $500,000,000,000 you’re spending?

Here’s the problem for me if we just give the military whatever they want…

We’re gonna end up spending 17 years and 14 billion dollars on the R&D for a “scout” that is too slow and obvious to do recon, a troop transport that doesn’t have the room for troops, and an anti-tank vehicle that is has armor which releases toxic gasses if it takes a hit itself.

The people who control the purse strings aren’t our soldiers on the ground, they can be as interested as their own personal projects as any other government employee….