Military spending produces lots of jobs but so does infrastructure spending like on roads, bridges, high speed rail track, communications spending (real high-speed internet 1Gbs+).

Even healthcare spending can provide jobs and benefits society as a whole. However, like military spending the fiscal abuse in its costs is rampant.

There is a place for military spending, but using that spending to often protect our commercial interests in foreign countries is not always to the benefit of our society-at-large.

Military spending was a problem in 2000BC and will be a debate for 3000AD too ... Beating our swords into ploughshares is an elusive utopian dream.