The general lament is the American economy will collapse without military weapons sales so they're vital to the American mission. Cadillac Man and I have not pursued this one much but I suspect he may be afflicted a tad with that thinking.
The lament is utter barking rubbish and here's why. America spends well over half its gold (i.e. tax income) on the military troops and hardware with that coming to significantly higher than half a trillion annually.
Conversely, income from weapons sales which you have seen hustled in such shameless ways comes to only fifty billion. That's a big pile of money to someone but not to you since, relative to the total GDP, that's less than one tenth of a percent and may even be less than one one hundredth of a percent.
Note: that's based on a GDP which is said to be somewhere over fifteen trillion annually.
For more than half a trillion in expense a year, you get absolutely nothing except plasticized news stories of a fantasy war. The people really die but we saw the same footage in Vietnam; it just had more trees.
Ed: it's just more evangelism!
Invalidate those numbers if you can, Heretical One, but you won't find a flaw.
Ed: you leave out the freedom Americans get!
Yes, sure. I have to keep reminding myself people don't have that anywhere else. However, I rarely saw cops anywhere else I ever lived but America is crawling with them. In that respect, America is far more likely to get in my face than elsewhere.
Note: you'll never learn these things on cruise ships and probably not on guided tours either. Go there, anywhere at all, and live it for a while. It needs to be outside America for the same reason Euros need to visit other countries. That's not simply due to size but rather experience.
I can't possibly thank everyone involved in getting me over there and staying in a non-deceased situation after I got there with things wobbling more precariously as time went by. The enlightenment and illumination which came from that was enormous and it makes me all the more hungry to do that again but the blizz is ever having done it at all.
I so much wish that for people if everyone can take whatever opportunity presents to do that.
If you can't afford to do it, see above about what happens to over half of America's gold each year.
Even if nothing else, it's just bad business.
The lament is utter barking rubbish and here's why. America spends well over half its gold (i.e. tax income) on the military troops and hardware with that coming to significantly higher than half a trillion annually.
Conversely, income from weapons sales which you have seen hustled in such shameless ways comes to only fifty billion. That's a big pile of money to someone but not to you since, relative to the total GDP, that's less than one tenth of a percent and may even be less than one one hundredth of a percent.
Note: that's based on a GDP which is said to be somewhere over fifteen trillion annually.
For more than half a trillion in expense a year, you get absolutely nothing except plasticized news stories of a fantasy war. The people really die but we saw the same footage in Vietnam; it just had more trees.
Ed: it's just more evangelism!
Invalidate those numbers if you can, Heretical One, but you won't find a flaw.
Ed: you leave out the freedom Americans get!
Yes, sure. I have to keep reminding myself people don't have that anywhere else. However, I rarely saw cops anywhere else I ever lived but America is crawling with them. In that respect, America is far more likely to get in my face than elsewhere.
Note: you'll never learn these things on cruise ships and probably not on guided tours either. Go there, anywhere at all, and live it for a while. It needs to be outside America for the same reason Euros need to visit other countries. That's not simply due to size but rather experience.
I can't possibly thank everyone involved in getting me over there and staying in a non-deceased situation after I got there with things wobbling more precariously as time went by. The enlightenment and illumination which came from that was enormous and it makes me all the more hungry to do that again but the blizz is ever having done it at all.
I so much wish that for people if everyone can take whatever opportunity presents to do that.
If you can't afford to do it, see above about what happens to over half of America's gold each year.
Even if nothing else, it's just bad business.
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