America, the land of the free and brave. Lets talk about some of the meths and truths about military spending. We have our "War Hugs" that are Pro war and are all about military spending and we have your local pacifist that rather give the money to the community. I'm a vet, and i'm going to give you the perspective of a foot soldier.
Lets start off with some facts take a look at this link world super powers. Yes , we do have the biggest military budget in the world. We have people who this agree with this but let me ask you a simple question. I want you to think back to 9/11. I want you to really stop and think back what where you doing that day? what where you having for lunch, how did you even feel when America was attacked by Muslim extremists? Now, that said and done the nation supported to go to war to find and kill the enemy. We need to keep our troops safe and the truth is when we first entered the war our equipment was outdated. Our troops didn't even have body armor. Yet we are quick to send our boys to war right ?
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Take another look at Chinas navy as you could see they have a larger navy then we do. Totalitarian Communist China is consumed with nationalist fervor and expansionist thirst. It is aiming to increase its Naval spending at a rate of three times its rate of GDP growth (its GDP growth is already very high). In, class i heard the comment that America is being like Rome and Rome fell due to it over extending its empire. Which is concerning, most American's are not aware we are still in a cold war era. We need to keep our borders safe.
Our economy needs to be better, our education needs reform, we need to bring industry back to the United States, and many more things need to happen. However, all of these improvements are meaningless if all of America is dead because we were invaded/attacked.
The Roman Empire cut military spending and was invaded by the Germanic tribes shortly afterward. The Song Empire of China put its military funding into the arts and was conquered by the Mongols. The Tang empire, the empire preceding the Song, put a large portion of its revenue into the military and became extremely powerful because it increased relations with the Koreans and Japanese.
We need to look at history and learn from it, the most successful empires in the world are build on a strong military.The truth is i don't know how many times we soldiers could not train because of these budget cuts. I fired my rifle maybe 5 times at most before i was shipped off to Iraq. I truly learned my job while i was in combat. The united states gets into a conflict every 10 years or so which is the reason why we have the best military; we learn on the go just like the Romans did. The reason for the United States being a world super power and having the comforts we do today was because we had the only industrial industries after world war 2.
Military spending should be regulated better; we have equipment that completely useless. I don't know how many times i came across that. We spend millions on contracts, we should have better testing. The budget should better focused on equipment and better programs for soldiers who are coming back home. We don't need a public heath system, or wasting founds on people who are to lazy to work or have to many kids. The military creates jobs , and it should never be cut or we will fall like the Romans did!
Food for Thought. I completely agree with this blog. I agree that Military spending should not be cut. We do need to look at how we spend our money. Making open purchases with government credit cards over spending through contracts would save the government tons of money. We would save so much money if we bought things at Walmart. We could spend Ten dollars on a toilet seat at Walmart, but instead we buy through contracts and spend Four hundred dollars. This is waste full spending.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should reward programs who don't spend their entire budget; instead of punishing them. Maybe if they didn't spend all of their money we could roll it into the next fiscal year, or even reward them. This is why military spending to a civilian looks ridiculous. The reason why the Government puts money into all of these crazy research programs is because if they don't spend all of the budget next year they will lose it. So they make sure by the end of every quarter all the money is gone. Weather they need to spend it or not. Now where does this seem logic. As parents we tell our children to save their money and "Not spend it all in one place.". But as a Government we can hardly let the ink dry before we blow all the money we have. As my mom always used to say "You act like your money is going to burn a hole in your pocket."
We need to focus our spending on making sure that our troops have the equipment that they really need. If we focused our spending on the equipment that our troops needed, we might not have as many injured vets or deaths. We are now spending more money taking care of our disabled vets and paying the families of the service members who have passed than in any other war.