Message from @Troye
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It's more like taking that 80K a Supply Battalion is dumping on last-minute bullshit to maintain their funding so it would be transferred to a forward deployed combat unit in need of equipment
I double checked and I couldn't find an accurate representation of our spending. However, I did see that on paper social security, medicare, etc. make up a chunk that odds are is bigger than deffence spending. One of the major problems is where all the money is actually going. Money is being siphoned out of social security to pay for everything else. Each of the major chunks of spending needs reform.
@Mersenne I agree the argument could be worded better. But its really simple. We're spending way too much. And that includes millitary. The fact stands that our millitary is larger than the next seven largest countries combined.
lol no\
More spending is required
You want to know why?
Because the americans have lost the will to fight hard wars
Not to be aggressive, but I would challenge you to provide a source stating that any military funds are being siphoned from social security
So every war needs to be easy for the us to win.
How could you possibly not think that the government wastes money just as badly in defense spending as it does in healthcare spending? That makes no sense
That's a separate social program that's strictly off limits to every other government pool of money.
Vs nothing productive
Thats just one example
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@Mersenne I wasn't claiming they were being siphoned to the millitary specifically. Only that they are gone
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@Louis The key word here is *wastes*. I'm not claiming that there aren't areas where are military could be improved. I'm saying there is a massive fucking pit that all our money is getting sucked into from every branch of government. Wherever that money is going its getting wasted
Miltary does not waste as much money as you think
F35 for example was a legit program with one problem that made it a money sink
An audit would have wasted all that money and cancelled the f35
After being so close to done
The f35 all things considered was not that bad
But thats just the example people make
The problem was thinking that having one chassis for three different models would make it cheaper.
It didnt
To be honest, the F-35 was a considerable fucking waste of funding. I would advocate the F-22 as a versatile and reliable alternative to the F-35.
The F35 *is* not all that bad, but it *was* all that bad before they got their act together and stopped trying to 10-up SAAB
F-22 no
F-22 is a air superiority fighter
And super fucking expensive per unit
f35 in general purpose
As much as i like the f-22
It is not general purpose
And that's the problem. An air superiority aircraft should never be cheaper than a general purpose fighter jet.
It wasnt
per unit
I'm just reading the writing on the wall. The F-35 is arguably the premier funding fuck-up for 2018.