Outrageous $778B 2022 Military Budget Approved

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[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The Lockheed C-130 Aircraft is assembled in Marietta, Georgia. The parts are made and shipped in from all 50 states. That's how military spending works. It employes millions of civilians in all 50 states and in almost all congressional districts. Congressmen do not fire their constituents to keep their seats.

[–]StillLessons 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Great example. I have a family member who is pro-military for precisely this reason. She sees the military primarily as a source of work for Americans. The fact that this "work" is the work of killing millions around the world seems not to faze her. As long as the jobs are there, she sees it as net positive.

She's a bleeding-heart lefty in "social issues" (racism, sexism, protect the poor immigrants, protect the poor in other countries, etc). How she squares the circle that military jobs are primarily serving the purpose of killing the very constituencies she claims to support in other countries I will never know.

[–]Airbus320 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Really weird