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Originally Posted by lookout123
I'm a strong proponent of making dead certain that each one of our military branches is the strongest of type in the world BUT the R&D process is so full of waste it is obscene.
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The US military is more powerful than the next (is it) eight countries combined? That is ridiculous. US military secret arms budget (that Congress is not permitted to study) is larger than something like the entire military of the next three largest countries combined.
Well, even the French and British could not collect enough smart bombs to attack Kaddafi. Why should they? They expect the US taxpayer to pay for all military stockpiles. And that is part of the problem. We have ridiculous amounts spent in a military as to even invent wars (ie Mission Accomplished) and enemies (Saddam).
Meanwhile, even the most obvious waste cannot be eliminated by a Congress now and again dominated (since the last Congressional elections) only by extremists. One billion dollars a year eliminated by stop printing a foolish dollar bill. Anyone in UK, the EU, Canada or elsewhere would immediately recognize the stupidity. Why is the UK £2 (also called $3.25) in coin form? No other country in the world would be so stupid as to print a paper £0.80 piece. Or a 1.33 Euro currency. No intelligence country would circulate currency that tiny in paper.
Congress gets all fizzed up over a trivial $38 billion spending cut. And cannot even eliminate $1 billion annually by replacing a paper dollar bill with the equivalent gold colored coin.
We don't even need half that military. And we don't need the paper dollar bill. Neither will be addressed due to too many extremist in Congress and too few moderates (which means higher intelligence).