Imagine if all that war money went into SCIENCE
US war spending
Aiden Bell
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Kayden Wood
A lot of it does. It's not as if there is no research and development in the military.
Joseph Barnes
lol
Kevin Gray
Yeah, a lot goes to DARPA, but also private contractors who do less innovation and more militarization of the current technology and new technology pioneered by DARPA and co.
And as someone who has family who works in defense logistics I can say much of it goes towards stockpiles and the basic equipment for soldiers. Some stockpiles exist purely for other country's not to get their hands on certain materials, which basically means we have to buy up all of X commodity on the market.
Carson Nguyen
unless I'm a massive idiot, pretty sure OP's point was that the military expenditure is well below that spent on social programs
OP is retarded for these reasons
-budgets for intelligence agencies are classified (in part at least) and, therefore, not counted. given the rise in counter-insurgency tactics and propaganda both over and combined with direct military intervention since WWII, this is likely a sizeable amount to be left out
-large parts of unemployment spending are work-to-welfare, which often means subsidizing wages so companies can pay below minimum wage in real terms. To put it another way, a massive amount of money is spent to not fix the problem of low wages and unemployment while also letting politicians claim their approved increased spending for fixing low wages and unemployment
-medicare and health care costs are needlessly inflated due to the government not negotiating directly with drug companies, allowing the price of medicine to reach ungodly heights
-leftists are not for social programs; they are for seizing the means of production so this idiocy wouldn't go on in the first place
Carter Gutierrez
R&D is about 10% of military spending.
Ethan Lee
If all the money wasted on the F-35 were instead spent on education we wouldn't have generations of young people saddled with debt they can't afford
Cameron Butler
Education spending is for 1st world nations only, The Free Market will fix it.
Christopher Powell
You should also post the Discretionary Spending chart.
Chase Reyes
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Shut up, fag.