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Here is an interesting example of the conservative paradox. Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) warned us about the military industrial complex. So the ideas of small government and fiscal responsibility are the exact principles that ought to guard against what is happening with the Pentagon. At the same time tho, the cold war was taking up so much of America's resources to battle communism literally everywhere, it was kind of inevitable that an enormous -and enormously complex-bureaucratic machine would develop with many many opportunities to quietly siphon off defense money with no one noticing.
These two things don't work well together: we want lower taxes and responsible balanced budgets and avoid bureaucratic bloat, but also, we have to give everything we got to keep the commies from destroying everything that we love. We have to keep ahead of the Russian military, the KGB, and stop the domino effect happening all over the world.
Except now that the cold war was won and we know that Russia's military is not all that, can we shut off any part of the cold war machine? We still have the Red Chinese to think about and that's no small threat, but for those that want less taxes and sensible budgets, does defence have to be such an astonishingly fat calf that parasites can attach themselves without concern, and suck the life blood out of... -I feel like I am going too far with this analogy.
Just.. it seems like whenever I bring up Eisenhower people are like "meh" but mention Reagan who blew up the deficit beyond all debt in the history of the nation and people are full of love for old Ron. What's up with that?
The military is only 3% of our gdp. People act like it’s half out budget. It isn’t.
So the two total budget for the US in 2022 was 6.12 trillion. And the budget for the DOD was about 800 billion. So almost sixth of the budget was spent on the DOD. And that's just the budget, things like wars don't count against it so we likely spend way more than that on the military
"almost a sixth". Lmao
In what way is representing a fact laughing your ass off?