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djscrib · 08-31-2005, 11:20 PM

Well the US has to spend a lot of money on a few things almost every other country in the world doesn't really worry too much about. Something like 30% of our budget goes into our military and has since the 1940s. We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars supporting that. After you factor that in there's a lot less of the pie to give out and we still give out a lot.

Now why does it matter if the US spends a ton on the military?

Well the last time we didn't spend much on the military was in the 1930's and that turned out real well when some German and Japanese Jackasses went on a friggen rampage.

Without the US diverting 1/3 of their tax dollars into their military europe would be speaking german.

In the 1950's through the 1980's there was only 1 reason that the USSR didn't trot through their asses right through the rest of Europe. Again the US. If not for the thread of us North Korea would own SE asia, China would have duked it out with India, and people would be spending $20/gallon for gas because the middle east would be slaughtering each other.

Now for example I realize Denmark requires mandatory service in the navy for all their male citizens but fear of rebuttal from the Danish armed forces is not exactly keeping anybody in check.

So my point is we give a lot of money to relief efforts for disasters that have already occured, just not as much per capita as others. HOWEVER we pay plenty per-capita maintaining armed forces that prevent much much much worse disasters from ocurring. Add those two numbers together and we're pretty damn generous.

08-31-2005, 11:20 PM
djscrib Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 147	Well the US has to spend a lot of money on a few things almost every other country in the world doesn't really worry too much about. Something like 30% of our budget goes into our military and has since the 1940s. We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars supporting that. After you factor that in there's a lot less of the pie to give out and we still give out a lot. Now why does it matter if the US spends a ton on the military? Well the last time we didn't spend much on the military was in the 1930's and that turned out real well when some German and Japanese Jackasses went on a friggen rampage. Without the US diverting 1/3 of their tax dollars into their military europe would be speaking german. In the 1950's through the 1980's there was only 1 reason that the USSR didn't trot through their asses right through the rest of Europe. Again the US. If not for the thread of us North Korea would own SE asia, China would have duked it out with India, and people would be spending $20/gallon for gas because the middle east would be slaughtering each other. Now for example I realize Denmark requires mandatory service in the navy for all their male citizens but fear of rebuttal from the Danish armed forces is not exactly keeping anybody in check. So my point is we give a lot of money to relief efforts for disasters that have already occured, just not as much per capita as others. HOWEVER we pay plenty per-capita maintaining armed forces that prevent much much much worse disasters from ocurring. Add those two numbers together and we're pretty damn generous. __________________ Vidlock DRM Service - Add DRM to your website today http://www.vidlock.com Coming Soon - Vidpass