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well, anything i actually want to achieve in this country is severely handicapped by the lack of resources available due to the insane military budget. and the military budget is insane due to our constant pilfering of the world for its resources thus necessitating bases all over the planet. so i guess yeah kinda.
So putting aside what you personally want, why not consider the next best thing to benefit more people vs. lesser people?
Why does it have to be your way or the highway? Not everyone’s list of wishes or demands will be fulfilled 10/10.
Furthermore that excessive military spending (which is supremely wasteful, I agree) is actually helping Ukraine at the moment, so I personally have lesser issue with it in the now. We are essentially funding the downfall of a planetary threat and our enemy without putting boots on the ground.
Internet and GPS are two of the many things that have also come from the military budget. And I’m not so sure the the government is pilfering resources. As far as I know, we aren’t invading a place like Iraq again…I know corps are doing it, but that’s a different kettle of fish.
What I would honestly want is an accountable and reasonable audit and see if (and where) there are areas of waste, redundancy, etc. it’s easy to say a smaller military budget, but I don’t have a realistic or practical idea of where you should reduce spending.
Conversely, Our government would have a lot more money if the IRS wasn’t so severely defunded that it is incapable of going after the wealthiest offenders who defraud our country of taxes and instead have to pursue nickel and dime offenders. I’m far from an atheist, but I would like to reign in tax-exempt statuses for churches and whatnot as well (but that is a losing issue)
The problem with military spending is often times in the area of redundant office supplies. As stupid as it is, it is immensely more wasteful. I’m talking markups on desks, chair, furniture, etc. standard furnishings being marked up x-amounts.
It doesn’t end there, but that’s the area that I find most absurd. A standard desk going for $50,000 on tax payers Dime is mind numbingly infuriating. It’s all about fitting everything to account for exact dollar figures, regardless of if it’s reasonable or makes any shred of sense.
This doesn’t even go into the area of perfectly functional jeeps or tanks being dumped mid ocean to keep the machines of war being manufactured.
I agree with you about churches, as someone desperately feeling as if they need to find some semblance of a god.