American Military Dominance In One Staggering Chart

[/MSG/]

The federal government spends 1/8th as much on education as on military.

Most education spending is, and ought to be, state funded.

[Gonzomin]

America spends the most on the military and then fights countries way behind them in technology and armament. We fought in Iraq and Vietnam. We own the skies and bomb at will. we have the tanks and the bombs. Then we lose. Our military is using old planning and must learn to adapt to the new wars. Of course, people fight real hard when they defend their homelands from foreign invaders. Iraq was guaranteed to be a few weeks of war.
Iran is very mountainous and Iranis know their home turf. They will hide in valleys and caves, then come out when we give up hunting them. More Americans to get killed or wounded. Mega billions of dollars out the window. What is the prize? What can we win? Well,maybe Trump can get re-elected. That is worth the cost to rightys and Trump.

[StoneByStone]

Giving one person someone else's money doesn't lift anyone out of poverty. And the Republicans don't want people to stay poor.

It does if we have a system that continually redistributes wealth.
Republican economic policies always cause a recession and almost always make inequality worse.

[StoneByStone]

So you want to cut military funding. Fine, just say that. Don't go blathering on about education then.

You brought up education when you said we spend as much on the military as we do on education. I'm saying that is a sign that we're spending too much on the military.

[/MSG/]

You brought up education when you said we spend as much on the military as we do on education. I'm saying that is a sign that we're spending too much on the military.

Ok, and I agree. Pull out of NATO now. American troops for American soil, American money for American citizens.

[Mason Michaels]

Ok, and I agree. Pull out of NATO now. American troops for American soil, American money for American citizens.

America for Americans!(small print)(as long as they are WASP)

[/MSG/]

I hate black people!

Nobody cares.

[Mason Michaels]

Nobody cares.

A moderator changing a posters post.
That's shameful.

[/MSG/]

A moderator changing a posters post.
That's shameful.

Blow it out your ass.

[Mason Michaels]

Blow it out your ass.

Good help is hard to get,here at JPP

[Gonzomin]

Most education spending is, and ought to be, state funded.

The opposite of the military budget.

[MAGA MAN]

But if we spend more taxes on the poor, that's just going too damn far.

https://www.businessinsider.com/char...p23owLUPGsY1iY

Spending more on the poor doesn't benefit them. Poverty is the best incentive to do better. It worked for me lol.

[MAGA MAN]

But we don't need to spend nearly this much on defense. We don't need to occupy countries around the world. We don't need to fund the Israeli murder machine.
We should be spending considerably more on education than war.

We spend too much on education now. Look at the disparity between the rich college administrators and the students who are footing the bill.

[StoneByStone]

Spending more on the poor doesn't benefit them. Poverty is the best incentive to do better. It worked for me lol.

And yet countries that have generous social programs to help the working-class actually do have more social mobility.
Poverty may be an incentive, but it also makes doing better unrealistically hard.

[StoneByStone]

We spend too much on education now. Look at the disparity between the rich college administrators and the students who are footing the bill.

Which is why we should have free college.