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Military spending unaffected by recession

World Feb. 04, 2010 - 06:25AM JST ( 11 )

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rajakumarFeb. 04, 2010 - 08:59AM JST

No need for high military spending and military/arms industries based jobs,why waste so much here.

Spending trillions on internet/PCs/food production/agro ventures,will build more peace for all nations via food abundance.

Price of food,should be decreased via abundant food production and via bigger export/import of food.

Abudant food,abundant housing and abundant clothing, is way to go for all nations. Nations with war woes,do have these 3 abundance.
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GJDailleultFeb. 04, 2010 - 10:28AM JST

the defense budget in the U.S. has likely reached a ceiling after climbing over 75% between 2000 and 2009

Strangely quiet on this thread isn't it. Where are all "the deficit is killing us posters"?
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bushloverFeb. 04, 2010 - 01:04PM JST

Business is Booming you might say.
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some14someFeb. 04, 2010 - 01:11PM JST

Military spending itslef is one of the causes of recession, i guess.
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goddogFeb. 04, 2010 - 02:20PM JST

If it were not for all of this military spending, the global recession would have been much worse.
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MadvertsFeb. 04, 2010 - 07:56PM JST

"Where are all "the deficit is killing us posters"?"

Heh, I have no idea how much a 75% increase on the US military budget actually is, but I'd say it's a lot.

Now wonder the tea-baggers are avoiding that Reality.
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skipthesongFeb. 04, 2010 - 11:40PM JST

leave the military spending alone for the moment please! Besides, you should all be directing your anger at the cost or running the civilian side of the military. 150k for an entry dental tech - no one gets that in the REAL world.
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LIBERTASFeb. 05, 2010 - 01:49AM JST

Related to this story is an essay in the UN Observer and International Report, which, given this piece above, one can hardly disagree with: America is "a nation that seeks war" and if it doesn’t change it could end up destroying itself. Given all the wars the United States has waged, "It is preposterous but true that we do not see ourselves as a nation that seeks war," writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. "We see ourselves as a peace loving nation" and that message is constantly drummed into the public by government and media. "If the United States were a man instead of a country, we would say he must be schizophrenic, or at minimum deeply mentally disturbed, to believe he is peace loving in the face of a record like this", Velvel writes in "The Long Term View," a journal of informed opinion published by his law school. Velvel further notes the U.S. today spends more on military than perhaps all the rest of the world put together and definitely more than the next 21 highest-spending nations combined, including China, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Israel. Not only do Americans always appear to be at war but they believe they fight only in good causes, he writes. "We believe we at all times fight only to do God’s work, and that we therefore have to fight or democracy, freedom, and economic affluence will be lost," Velvel writes. He says truth cannot be permitted to intrude "because it would destroy our self image." "Certainly much of the rest of the world---probably most of the rest of the world---does not see us as peaceloving." Gulf War II, Velvel notes, is having the opposite impact on public opinion the U.S. intended. "It has caused Muslims---the Arab 'street,’ in particular---to hate our guts even more than they already did."
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Helter_SkelterFeb. 05, 2010 - 06:53AM JST

the U.S. today spends more on military than perhaps all the rest of the world put together

Excellent. Let's keep it that way.
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GJDailleultFeb. 05, 2010 - 09:06AM JST

That's right, let's keep it that way.

And for as long as your Chinese bankers give you permission to do that, you will. Then when they pull the plug, you won't.