Does the USA Spend Too Much on 'National Security'?

antiquity said:

Explain too much money on national defense? Explain the lowest military level since WWII? Then explain spending not enough on the economy?

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I think you mean the highest since WW2

antiquity said:

Explain too much money on national defense? Explain the lowest military level since WWII? Then explain spending not enough on the economy?

Democrats seem content with a 2% average growth rate in our national economy even after throwing billion down the drain in stimulus that didn't work. Strangling the economy by decreeing regulations that stem growth in the private sector. Lower take home pay and the lowest job participation rate in about 30 years.....

Yeah, yeah I know its all Bush fault.

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We have spent billions (or is it trillions) on nuclear missiles and (star wars, Strategic Defense Initiative) we will never use. We spend billions on foreign engagements which do nothing but further destabilized regional conditions. We spend billions doing for other countries what they should be doing for themselves. (Sell them the technologies if they need it).

2% growth? I don't want any growth. Everything is to big and getting bigger all the time. It has to stop with a sustainable, non-growth dependent model taking it's place. The problem we have is being dependent on never ending continuous growth, something which is a physical impossibility. We are guaranteed to fail if we do not change to a stable, sustainable model.

The regulations are absolutely necessary. They need to be expanded further, not cut back. People and the environment simply must be protected from the negative impact side of the equation when the system grows. Growth always come at the expense of something else. There is no free lunch in a world governed by entropy.

poll is biased; why should foreign nationals, many of them citizens of nations hostile to the united states, be allowed to vote on how easily we can beat their crappy poor kid armies up?