The Realist

The Economic Cost of the Military Industrial Complex

What complete garbage. Ron Paul republican, great economic sense, no foreign policy sense. We spend about 4% of GDP on military, which is nothing. Our government is there to protect us and that is it. Not to pay welfare, medicare, social security and other useless government programs that transfer wealth. If you are worried about government expenses I think you can find trillions outside of defense to cut before we cut one missle.

I have a great place to start to cut our military budget, how about we don't send our ships to help Indonesia when they get hit by a tsunami. How about we don't send them to help all other huminitarian problems. When did our military become the world's meal on wheels?

Furthermore, and more importantly, we spend so much because we value technology. We would rather spend more and lose fewer men, while countries like China and Russia trade technology for dead soldiers.

We spend to protect the entire world. Europe spent nothing on defense in the cold war, we did all the heavy lifting. These same Europeans whose continent is on the verge of total collapse can not keep an economy going even when they spend nothing on their own defense. Then they have the audacity to tell us that we are wrong in our Iraq pursuits? Yeah we were wrong in their eyes becuase Iraq was one of their major trading partners and all they care about is trying to make money any way possible. Now we are going through the same thing with Iran.

I don't care what the world thinks of us when they are completely irrational. So France and Germany are being bribed by Iraq and then I should care that they think badly about us acting against Iraq? These people should have no say in what the US does, and rightfully so. I don't take foreign policy advice from losers like France. Losers like that caused WWII and rolled over to the Nazis in two weeks. In the end it was our dead boys lying on the beaches and hedge rows or Normandy, paying for their dream of "can't we all just get along."

It's probably just cognitive disonance but when you have the same opinions as the French, Germans, Wussies, Russians, Chinese and Losers maybe you should check your opinions instead of questioning the greatest country that ever existed.