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Old 06-02-2013, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by HercDriver130 View Post
people forget that the military... and defense contractors and OTHER companies that provide services to the military support hundreds of thousands ..nay...well north of a million well paying jobs in this country.
Read the previous responses, we need to get off the military spending crack pipe. There are civil equivalents to these "economy-boosting" targeted expenditures that produce recoupable resource value. Waste production (war capacity) is generally not recoupable, unless you wish to export your new guns to your enemy (wouldn't be particularly wise).

BL, you don't torch the ground in order to keep people employed. That's effectively what an economy sustained by war capacity appropriations does in the long term. Our DOD spending, along with our social entitlements, are bogging down the economic labor value of our proletariat.

We agree the government is an integral part of directing economic efforts; some of the posters here are merely saying the MIC doesn't have to be the conduit. As a servicemember I happen to agree with that assertion. Crazy right?
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