and those...

provide tangible benefits to the people

Not barely?

At what cost?

Half our budget goes to health and social

medigay

my bad

It's closer to $700,000,000,000

not $600,000,000,000

But military spending only funds war profiteers...

It's funny how to ignore the percentage

I believe in the Orwellian view

oh, percentage of our budget?

I mean, it's the 3rd largest spending item

You ignore the fact that military spending, by percentage is at a record low

we spend a full

2.1% more

*1.1% more

wait no

fuck

This is a ***CHRISTIAN*** server! :PraiseGod:

1.2% more

than the next largest nation

Right?

*and*?

of our GDP

*and*?

What's your point

It's overbloated, we don't need to spend that much on it

we have a way bigger gdp

Not true @SilverLining

well yeah

If you want to look at amount spent alone

It's $400,000,000,000 more

We're also

in NATO

a massive coalition

We are NATO's backbone

Studies found in order to keep the defense goal, which is to be able to win a 2 front war at any time, we need to keep increasing spending

So we don't even need to spend as much as some of our competitors

NATO needs to be disbanded