American Kleptocracy

[Amianthus]

Secondly, it seems to me that the case has been adequately made out that those neat little government pie charts showing what percentage of the pie goes to the DOD is substantially misleading to anyone without an accounting degree and a lot more detailed breakdown than the pie charts provide, with respect to how much federal money actually does go to the military and its helpers.  As the article itself says,

Going by those rules, a large chunk of the money allocated for the Dept of Defense should also be put under "social programs" as well. That is money for housing, health care, food, etc for soldiers and their families.

[Michael Tee]

<<Going by those rules, a large chunk of the money allocated for the Dept of Defense should also be put under "social programs" as well. That is money for housing, health care, food, etc for soldiers and their families.>>

Yeah it's a waste because the recipients are able-bodied young men and their families who are being subsidized like that to be turned loose as a gang of assassins on unsuspecting Third World peoples.  Maintaining them as a force whose sole purpose is to attack and ravage weaker countries is whole fucking waste in a way that subsidizing needy but disadvantaged Americans is not.

[Universe Prince]

Social benefits spending puts the money right back into the pockets of the most needy Americans and shows immediate benefits in brighter futures for them, so in no way is it wasted.

One would have to be naive in the extreme to actually believe that.

[sirs]

One must consider the source