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Originally Posted by Skybird
Anyway, the whiole military machine is terribly much greatere than what American can afford by own financial power. And as I said in some other thread, it leaves me with a dilemma, for I honestely have no answer what to do. Doing business as sual and all on tic, will spell disaster sooner or later. Shortening the military probbaly also will. And sicne America fter WWII never switchzed back to peace time production and thus allowed its economy depending and the profiteering people growing strong within the military, this has brought America very much into a dead end.
Solution? I have none. Maybe it just is meant to blow up.
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It might help if people would recognize that excessive defense budget is not the only way to bring down an economy. With the end of the Soviet Union and the poverty of North Korea, it has been proved that excessive defense as a proportion of your national strength is potentially lethal. Now we seem to be learning this is true of welfare as well.
Even if it means breaking some promises, it is time to "lock" welfare to a certain percentage of GNP like Japan locks "defense". If Defense is Guns rather than Butter, Welfare is Lard rather than Butter. Both need to be limited so they don't overwhelm the ability of the People to sustain them.