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Opinion: The Pentagon doesn’t need $886bn. I oppose this bloated defense budget | Bernie Sanders
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Lol.
The problem isn't some IT peeps making 6 figures in cushy jobs.
It's having more nuclear aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined.
It's spending 10's of millions of dollars for a single bomb strike.
You have no frame of reference, have you ever even seen what the area around a military base looks like?
At one of America's largest bases I was instructed not to stop for gas withing 2 miles of base due to crime, there is practically no positive economic impact of a military base on a local scale. Most of them don't make enough money to do anything than fuck the local housing market. And that part does spread out because even they don't want to live close to base.
This even creates a generational effect where low local taxes cuts services like education and police.
I mean, you have zero idea what you're talking about, but because you're a work from home IT contractor you think you're an expert?