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I'm fine with having a huge military and spending a lot of cash on it. But I'm not fine with that military being spread all over the world doing things the public isn't readily informed of.
I'm very not fine with the MASSIVE budgets the navy and airforce get to blow on experimental stuff that will never see the light of day. If we stopped developing new jets today it would be decades before anyone even had the remotest possibility to catch up. The B-2 Spirit is something like 25 years old and there isn't anything close out there that we aren't developing.
With all the money being spent on the military we still have issues of living conditions and basic supplies. We still farm out labor at all levels to contractors.
So how about we shift that money to other things in our country. Like competent high speed rail. More arts and sciences research grants. Public education budgets(with no bs federal strings attached). Rebuild our roads, dams, bridges, etc. There is just too much that needs done here to worry about the stability of some country the size of the county I live in halfway across the globe, especially when the instability was caused by us to start with.
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